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Connecticut School Document 

No. 3 — 1904 



(WHOLE NUMBER -243) 



Laws Relating to Schools 




1904 



r^yj y^^j 



MEMBERS 



OF THE 



State Boart) of jEbucation 
1904 



ABIRAM .CHAMBERLAIN Governor 
HENRY ROBERTS Lieut. -Governor 
WILLIAM H PALMER Jr . 
GEORGE M CARRINGTON . 
WILLIAM G SUMNER . 
EDWARD D ROBBINS . 



Meriden 

Hartford 

Norwich 

Winsted 

New Haven 

Wethersfield 



SECRETARY OF THE BOARD 

CHARLES D HINE Hartford 

OFFICE 

Room 42 Capitol Hartford 



SFP 16 191? 



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NOTE 



This compilation includes all sections of the General Statutes per- 
taining to public schools and the duties of school officers. 

The Special Acts, under which several towns and districts are organ- 
ized, are also given, pages 85-103. 

At the margin of each section will be found the number of the same 
section in the General Statutes. 



CONTENTS 





Page 


Constitution ....... 


I 


State Board of Education ..... 


2 


Normal schools ...... 


5 


Instruction, employment, and attendance of children 


8 


Duties of towns ....... 


13 


Transfer of the obligations and property of school societies to 




towns ....... 


17 


High schools ....... 


20 


Evening schools ...... 


22 


Schools at temporary homes ..... 


24 


Town school officers ...... 


26 


Supervision of schools ...... 




School districts ....... 


36 


School district taxes . . . . . 


46 


District committees ...... 


48 


Consolidation of school districts .... 


50 


Teachers ....... 


56 


School libraries and philosophical apparatus 


59 


Support of public schools ..... 


60 


Town deposit fund ...... 


69 


Public lilDraries ...... 


70 


Elections and electors ...... 


77, 


Health, sanitation, and safety .... 


76 


Care and reformation of children .... 


78 


Temporary county homes .... 


78 


Connecticut school for boys .... 




Industrial school for girls .... 


80 


Imbecile children ...... 


83 


Crimes ........ 


83 


Special Acts ....... 


85 


Ansonia ....... 


85 


Bridgeport ....... 


. 86 


Derby ....... 


87 


Manchester, ninth district .... 


89 


Naugatuck . . . . . . 


90 


New Haven ...... 


91 


New London ...... 


94 


Norwalk ....... 


9"; 


Norwich, Falls district ..... 


^0 
95 


Norwich, Greeneville district .... 


97 


Orange, Union district ..... 


99 


Waterbury ....... 


100 



CONSTITUTION OF CONNECTICUT 

[article eight] 



Of Education 



§ I The charter of Yale College, as modified by agree- 
ment with the corporation thereof, in pursuance of an act of 
the General Assembly, passed in May, 1792, is hereby con- 
firmed. 

§ 2 The fund, called the School Fund, shall remain a 
perpetual fund, the interest of which shall be inviolably appro- 
priated to the support and encouragement of the public or 
common schools throughout the state, and for the equal benefit 
of all the people thereof. The value and amount of said fund 
shall, as soon as practicable, be ascertained in such manner as 
the General Assembly may prescribe, published and recorded 
in the Comptroller's office; and no law shall ever be made au- 
thorizing said fund to be diverted to any other use than the 
encouragement and support of public or common schools, 
among the several school societies, as justice and equity shall 
require. 



LAWS RELATING TO SCHOOLS 



Chapter I 



State Board of Education 

General Statutes, Chapter 129, page 557 

§ I The state board of education shall consist of seven QSsec. 2111 
members, of whom three shall constitute a quorum. The ^^\^\^^ 
governor, lieutenant-governor, and the secretary of the state Revisss 
board of education shall be ex oificio members of said board. 1889 ch 125 

1893 cb 177 

The general assembly, on or before the first day of July, at i89och227 
each regular session, shall appoint two members of said board, How constitu- 
one for the term of four years from the first of July of the year 
of his appointment and one for four years from the first of 
July of the year next after his appointment. Of the four mem- 
bers so appointed by the general assembly one shall be from 
each congressional district.^ 

Vacancies arising during a regular session of the general vacancies 
assembly shall be filled by appointment by the general as- 
sembly. Vacancies not filled by the general assembly shall be 
filled by appointment by the governor and lieutenaat-governor. 

The board shall appoint a secretary, who shall perform secretary 
such services as the board may prescribe,- and who shall be paid 
such salary as the board may determine. 

The board shall have power to hire necessary clerks, who cierks 
shall assist the secretary and shall perform such duties as the 
board or the secretary shall prescribe. 

§ 2 The board shall have general supervision and control gs sec 2112 
of the educational interests of the state ; iS?iKS 

Alay direct what books shall be used in all its schools, but 
shall not direct any book to be changed oftener than once in 
five years ; ^ 

^ The members are paid their necessary expenses Gen Stat § 481 1 
^ Powers and duties not enumerated in this chapter are 

a to make to comptroller return of delinquent towns and forfeitures 
§ 100 

b to draw orders for library money § 200 

c to furnish blanks and registers to private schools § 20 

d to inspect registers of private schools § 20 

e to inspect certificates of age § 24 
^§§97, III 



Duties 



Teachers' 
ings 



meet- 



Report 



Shall prescribe the form of registers^ to be kept in said 
schools and the form of blanks and inquiries for the returns^ to 
be made by the various school boards and committees ; 

Shall keep informed as to the condition and progress of the 
public schools in the state ; 

And shall seek to improve the methods and promote the 
efficiency of teaching therein, by holding, at convenient places 
in the state, meetings of teachers and school officers, for the 
purpose of instructing in the best modes of administering, 
governing, and teaching public schools, and by such other 
means as they shall deem appropriate ; but the expenses in- 
curred in such meetings shall not exceed the sum of three 
thousand dollars in any year. 

Said board shall, on or before the Monday after the first 
Wednesday in January in each year, submit to the governor 
a report containing a printed abstract of said returns, a de- 
tailed statement of the doings of the board, and an account 
of the condition of the public schools, of the amount and quality 
of instruction therein, and such other information as will ap- 
prise the general assembly of the true condition, progress, and 
needs of public education.^ 



There is a special 



^ Registers are supplied to public and private schools 
form for evening schools 

Private schools must keep prescribed register § 20 
For duties of teachers in connection with registers see § 199 
2 Returns to be made to state board of education see § 99 
a reports of school visitors § 99 

including names of teachers and committees §110 
b district reports by board of education § 61 
reports of evening schools § 77 
reports of private schools S^ 20 
reports of eyesight tests § 5 

number and names of children attending non-local high schools § 69 
number and names of children conveyed to non-local high schools 

§73 
salaries of district superintendents § 117 
average attendance in certain schools § 210 
Blanks are supplied for all above returns and for reports of district commit- 
tees to school visitors § 171 

2 Other powers and duties of the board not enumerated in this chapter are to 
a to enforce law relating to attendance at evening schools § 76 
b enforce law relating to employment of children § 27 

investigate and grant certificates of age in certain cases § 25 
c appoint public library committee § 245 
d order sanitary changes in schoolhouses § 264 

e examine teachers for county homes and appoint acting visitor for 
said schools § 84 
relieve towns from maintaining evening schools § 79 
appoint agents to act as superintendents in certain towns § 119 
approve high schools in certain cases § 67 apply to comptroller 
for high school grant ^ 69 



examine incorporated high schools and academies § 70 
approve high schools to which children are conveyed § 71 
to comptroller for conveyance grant § 73 



apply 



§ 3 The duties of citizenship shall be taught in the pub- i903 ch 96 
lie schools. The state board of education shall prepare and ^"^^^^9.^. 

. citizenship 

distribute to every school an outline of questions and sug- 
gestions relating to said subject, and said outline may be used 
in said schools. 

§ 4 The state board of education may, upon public ex- oSiecnis 
amination in such branches and upon such terms as it may Rev 1^62222 
prescribe, grant a certificate of qualification to teach in any 1895 ch 135 
public school in the state, and may revoke the same. The cer- Jffic^ates^*^ **^" 
tificate of qualification issued under this section shall be ac- 
cepted by boards of school visitors, boards of education, and 
town school committees in lieu of any other examination.^ 

§ 5 The state board of education shall prepare or cause a a sec 2251 
to be prepared suitable test cards and blanks to be used in \^^i^cV^ 
testing the eyesight of the pupils in public schools, and shall Eyesight of 
furnish the same, together with all necessary instructions for f^gt^®'^ ^ ^ 
their use, free of expense, to every school in the state. The 
superintendent, principal, or teacher, in every school, during the 
fall term in the year 1904 and triennially thereafter, shall test 
the eyesight of all pupils under his charge according to the 
instructions furnished, and shall notify in writing the parent 
or guardian of every pupil who shall be found to have any de- 
fect of vision or disease of the eyes, with a brief statement of 
such defect or disease, and shall make written report of all 
such cases to the state board of education. 

§ 6 The board may appoint an agent to secure the ob- gs seems 
servance of the laws relating to the instruction of ^children, and jjeY/^62098 
such agent shall make written report of his work to the sec- Appointment of 
retary semiannually.^ ^g^°* 

§ 7 It shall be the duty of the state board of education, GSseeuro? 
and the school visitors, boards of education, and town school ^ev^wss 
committees to enforce §§23, 24, and 25, and for that pur- i893ch227§6 
pose the state board of education may appoint agents, under dSidTa^^Maw^ 
its supervision and control, for terms of not more than one 
year, who shall be paid not to exceed five dollars a day for 
time actually employed and necessary expenses, and whose ac- 
counts shall be approved by said board and audited by the 
comptroller. The agents so appointed may be directed by said 
board to enforce the provisions of the law requiring the attend- 

^ approve superintendents in certain cases §§ 118 119 

/ apply to comptroller for state average attendance grant § 210 

m make estimates Gen Stat §§ 62 63 

n make reports Gen Stat §§ 183 187 
' § 195 : see §§ 66 104 179 

' May inspect certificates of age § 24, and registers of private schools § 20, 
and if school accommodations are not supplied by towns appeal to selectmen § 47 



Rev 1888 



6 

ance of children at schooP and to perform any duties necessary 

or proper for the due execution of the duties and powers of the 

board. ^ 

GSiecnuh § 8 The state board of education shall keep an account of 

1856 1867 1869 the moucy drawn and paid out for school libraries and philo- 

Rev 1888 §2220 sophical apparatus pursuant to chapter xv, and the comp- 

HbraS^^^int trollcr shall annually audit such account.^ 

assecnik § 9 ^^'^^ board may expend such sum as may be neces- 

1865^1883^^ sary to perform the duties and execute the powers conferred 

upon it, and shall semiannually file with the comptroller a cer- 

Expenditures tificd account of all State money received and expended during 

the preceding half year,* which account, shall be audited by the 

comptroller. All orders for drawing state money shall be 

signed by the secretary and countersigned by a duly authorized 

committee of the board. 

8 sec 2278 § 10 In all cascs when a school in any district has been 

Rev^SsSiB ^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^P^ during a portion of the school year, but not 

according to law,^ or when for any other cause there has been or 

Forfeitures may shall be a forfeiture of moneys accruing from the school fund 

or annual state appropriation that would otherwise have been 

paid to any town or school district, the secretary of the state 

board of education shall, on application from such town or 

school district, examine into the facts of the case, and decide, 

according to equity, on the right of the applicants to receive 

the money so forfeited ; and if he decides in favor of such 

right, and so certifies to the comptroller, the same shall be paid 

as if no forfeiture had occurred. 

Gs sec 2170 § II The secretary of the state board of education shall 

ReviS^2i47 annually, in January, give to the comptroller, in writing, a list 

^ ^ ., , of the towns and districts which have incurred the forfeiture 

Forfeitures to • i i r r c - • i 

be reported described in § 99, With the percentage of forfeiture m each 
case ; and the comptroller, in making paymxcnt of school moneys 
aforesaid, shall deduct the amount of money which each town 
or district shall have forfeited under the provisions of said 
section. 



Normal Schools 

GSsecnso § 12 The state board of education shall maintain normal 

^^1883?88?^ schools as seminaries for training teachers in the art of in- 
^ssXS^ structing and governing in the public schools of this state, at 



1893 ch 215 



^ Chap ii 

2 May inspect certificates of age § 24, and registers of private schools § 20, 
and if school accommodations are not supplied by towns appeal to selectmen § 47 
^ page 59 
■* The fiscal year ends September 30, Gen Stat § 182 ° ^ 44 



the places where such schools are legally established, and such Maintenance 
sum as the state board of education may in each year deem 
necessary for their support, not exceeding eighty thousand 
dollars for the four normal schools now established, shall be 
annually paid therefor from the treasury of the state, on the 
order of said board ; but the board shall not expend any money 
for a normal school hereafter established, until the town, 
city, or city school district, in which said school is situated 
shall have agreed in writing with said board to furnish, and 
shall have furnished, schools, in suitable and sufficient school 
buildings in connection with the training department in said 
school, the terms of said agreement to be satisfactory to said 
board; and every such town, city, or city school district is 
hereby empowered to make and execute such agreements. 

§ 13 The number of pupils in each school shall be de- ossecsssi 
termined by the state board of education. Said board may ^v/^§2248 
make regulations governing the admission of candidates. To i889chi86§2 
all pupils admitted to a normal school all its privileges, in- mSon'of^^ ^' 
eluding tuition, shall be gratuitous ; no persons, however, shall students 
be entitled to these privileges until they have filed with said 
board a written declaration that their object in securing admis- 
sion to such school is to become qualified to teach in public 
schools, and that they intend to teach in the public schools of 
this state. 

§ 14 The school officers in each town shall annually, QSsectzsn 
upon request, forw^ard to said board the names of such per- ^^^ }^ ^^^ 
sons as they can recommend as suitable persons in age, ^feg^^o^Ht^ 
character, talents, and attainments, to be received as pupils in selection of 

said schools. students 

§ 15 The state board of education shall expend the funds GSseczsss 
provided for the support of normal schools, appoint and remove J^^i^^^c^ 

their teachers, and make rules for their manasfement ; ^ shall file i889 ch ise §4 

it . 1 1 It 11-111. 1897 ch 35 

semiannually with the comptroller, to be audited by him, a Expenditures 
statement of the receipts and expenses on account of the accounts re- 

^ ^ ports 

normal schools, and shall annually make to the governor a 
report of the condition of those schools and the doings of said 
board in connection therewith. 

§ 16 Said board may establish and maintain model GSseassu 
schools under permanent teachers approved by it, in which the Rev^Ss'^^i 
pupils of the normal schools shall have an opportunity to i8S9chi86§5 
practice modes of instruction and discipline. ^^'^^^^ schools 

1 See § 43 



Chapter II 



OSsecsiie 

1650 1813 1821 
1849 1872 1882 

1885 1887 

Rev 1888 §2102 

1895 ch 134 

1899 ch 19 



Duties of 
parents and 
guardians 



GS sec 2117 
1882 1885 1887 
Rev 1888 §2103 

Penalty 
Excuses 



Complaint 



Procedure 



Attendance, Employment, and Instruction of Children 

General Statutes, Chapter 130, page 558 

§ 17 All parents and those who have care of children^ 
shall bring them up in some lawful and honest employment, 
and instruct them or cause them to be instructed in reading, 
writing, spelling, English grammar, geography, arithmetic, and 
United States history.^ 

Every parent or other person having control of a child over 
seven and under sixteen years^ of age shall cause such child 
to attend a public day school regularly during the hours and 
terms the public school in the district wherein such child re- 
sides is in session, or while the school is in session where pro- 
vision for the instruction of such child is made according to 
law, unless the parent or person having control of such child 
can show that the child is elsewhere receiving regularly 
thorough instruction during said hours and terms in the studies 
taught in the public schools.* 

Children over fourteen years of age shall not be subject to 
the requirements of this section while lawfully employed at 
labor at home or elsewhere ; but this provision shall not permit 
such children to be irregular in attendance at school while they 
are enrolled as scholars, nor exempt any child who is enrolled 
as a member of a school from any rule concerning irregularity 
of attendance which has been enacted or may be enacted by the 
town school committee, board of school visitors, or board of 
education, having control of the school.^ 

§ 18 Each week's failure on the part of a person to com- 
ply with any provision of § 17 shall be a distinct oifense, 
punishable with a fine not exceeding five dollars. 

Said penalty shall not be incurred when it appears that the 
child is destitute of clothing suitable for attending school, and 
the parent or person having control of such child is unable to 
provide such clothing, or its mental or physical condition is 
such as to render its instruction inexpedient or impracticable. 

All offenses concerning the same child shall be charged in 
separate counts in one complaint. When a complaint contains 
more than one count the court may give sentence on one or 
more counts and suspend sentence on the remaining counts. 

If at the end of twelve weeks from the date of the sentence 
it shall appear that the child concerned has attended school 

* Words "those who have the care of children" equivalent to parents or 
guardians 59 Conn 489 

Statute to receive a liberal construction 59 Conn 492 

^ See §§ 38 42 43 3 gg 108 202 205 '' § 20 5 g gy See § 19 



9 

regularly during that time judgment on such remaining counts 
shall not be executed. 

§ 19 Whenever the school visitors, town school com- 1903 ch 29 
mittee, or board of education of any town or district shall 
by vote decide that a child over fourteen and under sixteen 
years of age has not schooling sufficient to w^arrant his leaving 
school to be employed, and shall so notify the parent or 
guardian of said child in writing, the parent or guardian of 
said child shall cause him to attend school regularly during 
the days and hours that the public school in the district in which 
said parent or guardian resides is in session, and until the 
parent or guardian of said child has obtained from said board 
of school visitors, tow^n school committee, or board of education Leaving certm- 
a leaving certificate stating that the education of said child is ^**^ 
satisfactory to said visitors, town school committee, or board 
of education ; provided, that said parent or guardian shall not 
be required to cause his child to attend school after the child 
is sixteen years of age. Each week's failure on the part of a 
person to comply with the provisions of this section shall be a 
distinct offense, punishable with a fine not exceeding five dol- 
lars, and the provisions of section 18 shall be applicable to all 
proceedings under this section. 

§ 20 Attendance of children at a school other than a QSsecsiis 
public school shall not be regarded as compliance with the laws j?evS^§2i04 
of the state requiring parents and other persons having control Attendance at 
of children to cause them to attend school, unless the teachers private schools 
or persons having control of such school shall keep a register 
of attendance in the form and manner prescribed by the state 
board of education for the public schools,^ which register shall 
at all times during school hours be open to the inspection of the 
secretary and agents of the state board of education,^ and shall 
make such reports and returns concerning the school under 
their charge to the secretary of the state board of education as 
are required from the school visitors concerning the public 
schools,^ except that no report concerning expenses shall be 
required. The secretary of the state board of education shall 
furnish to the teachers or persons having charge of any school, 
on their request, such registers and blanks for returns as may be 
necessary for compliance with the provisions of this section. 

§ 21 Every person who shall employ a child under four- osuetiw 
teen years of age during the hours while the school which such ^^88-^885^^ 
child should attend is in session, and every person who shall ^^tjj^^f}^ 
authorize or permit on premises under his control any such 

1§2 '§§67 ^§2 



Employment of 
children under 
fourteen 

Q S sec 2120 
1882 1885 
Rev 1888 §2107 
1901 ch 110 

Penalty 



Q S sec U70U 

1886 
Rev 1888 §1753 
1895 ch 118 §1 
Employment of 
children under 
fourteen 
G S sec U705 

1886 
Rev 1888 §1754 

1895 ch 118 
1901 ch 110 S§1 



Certificate of 
age of child 



child to be so employed, shall be fined not more than twenty 
dollars for every week in which such child is so employed. 

§ 22 Every parent or other person, having control of a 
child, who shall make any false statement concerning the age 
of such child with intent to deceive the town clerk or registrar 
of births, marriages, and deaths of any town, or the teacher of 
any school, or shall instruct a child to make any such false state- 
ment, shall be fined not more than twenty dollars.^ 

§ 23 No child under fourteen years of age shall be em- 
ployed in any mechanical, mercantile, or manufacturing es- 
tablishment. 

§ 24 Every person or corporation employing a child 
under sixteen years of age in any mechanical, mercantile, or 
manufacturing establishment shall obtain a certificate showing 
that the child is over fourteen years of age. Such certificate 
shall be signed by the registrar of births, marriages, and deaths 
or by the town clerk of the town where there is a public record 
of the birth of the child, or by a teacher of the school which the 
child last attended, or by the person having custody of the regis- 
ter of said school.- 

If the child was not born in the United States and has not 
attended school in this state, one of the parents or the guardian 
of the child shall have the date of the birth of the child re- 
corded by the registrar of births, marriages, and deaths, or by 
the town clerk, where such parent or guardian resides. When 
applying for a record of the date of birth the parent or guardian 
shall state under oath to said registrar or town clerk the date 
and place of birth of the child, and said registrar or town clerk 
shall demand of the parent or guardian any family record, pass- 
port, or other paper showing the age of the child. 

Every employer or other person having control of any es- 
tablishment or premises where children under sixteen years of 
age are employed, who shall neglect to keep on file the cer- 
tificates described in this section or to show the same, with a list 
of the names of such children so employed, to the secretary or 
an agent of the state board of education, or to an agent of the 
board of school visitors, town school committee, or board of 
education, as the case may be, of the town in which the estab- 
lishment or premises are located, when demanded during the 
usual business hours, shall be fined not more than one hun- 
dred dollars. 

The fee for recording the birth of a child shall be fifteen 
cents, to be paid by the parent or guardian of the child. For 
a certificate of the record the fee shall be fifteen cents. 



§24 ^§§2225 



§ 25 If a child who has not attended school in this state i903ch75 
was born in the United States, but no record of the date of 
birth can be obtained, or if the record of the date of birth of a 
child on a school register in one year is inconsistent with the 
record in another year, or if a child has not attended school in 
this state at least one term of twelve weeks, the state board of 
education may investigate, and, if it appears that the child is 
over fourteen years of age, may grant a certificate accordingly, certificates of 
and this certificate may be accepted as evidence of age in lieu 
of the certificate prescribed in section 24. When the parent or 
guardian applies for a certificate under the provisions of this 
section, he shall state under oath to the secretary or to an agent 
of the state board of education the date and place of birth, and 
shall exhibit upon request any family records or other papers 
showing the age of the child. 

§ 26 Every person acting for himself, or as agent of a Qssecuioe 
mechanical, mercantile, or manufacturing establishment, who isse 
shall employ, authorize, or permit to be employed in such es- §§17542107 

1895 ch 118 S2 

tablishment any child, in violation of any provision of § 23 or 1901 ch no 
§ 24, shall be fined not more than sixty dollars, and every week see §2120 
of such illegal employment shall be a distinct offense ; pro- Penalty 
vided, that no person shall be punished under this section for 
the employment of any child, when at the time of such employ- 
ment the employer shall obtain, and thereafter during such 
employment keep on file, the certificate provided for in § 24. 

§ 27 It shall be the duty of the state board of education, Gs sec 1,707 
and the school visitors, boards of education, and town school RevS?i755 
committees to enforce §§23, 24, and 25, and for that pur- i893ch227§6 
pose the state board of education may appoint agents, under its Enforcement of 
supervision and control, for terms of not more than one year, sections 
who shall be paid not to exceed five dollars a day for time 
actually employed and necessary expenses, and whose accounts 
shall be approved by said board and audited by the comptroller. 
The agents so appointed may be directed by said board to en- 
force the provisions of the law requiring the attendance^ of 
children at school and to perform any duties necessary or 
proper for the due execution of the duties and powers of the 
board. 

§ 28 The school visitors or the town school committee gssecsisi 
in every town shall, once or more in everv year, examine into „ i842 

, . . ^ , , ., , , , . \, ' . Rev 1888 §2108 

the situation of the children employed m all manuiacturmg es- 
tablishments, and ascertain whether all the provisions of this 
chapter are duly observed, and report all violations thereof to JioSsof^Lw^^^ 
the proper prosecuting authority. 

1 §§ 17-22 



12 



GSsecSlSX 

1865 
Kev 1888 §2110 

By-laws con- 
cerning truante 



& 8 sec SSISS 

1865 
Rev 1888 §2111 

Truant officers 



Q S sec 212U 
1869 1877 
Rev 1888 §2112 
1899 ch 19 



Arrest of 
truants 



G S sec 2125 
1869 1872 1877 
Rev 1888 §2113 
1903 ch 92 §2 
1901 ch 56 



Truants com- 
mitted to school 
for boys 



OS sec 2126 

1877 
Rev 1888 §2114 

Fees for arrest- 
ing truants 



§ 29 Each city and town may make regulations concern- 
ing habitual truants from school and children between the ages 
of seven and sixteen years^ wandering about its streets or pub- 
lic places, having no lawful occupation, nor attending school, 
and growing up in ignorance ; and may make such by-laws, 
respecting such children, as shall conduce to their welfare and 
to public order, imposing penalties, not exceeding twenty dol- 
lars for any one breach thereof. 

§ 30 Every town, and the mayor and aldermen of every 
city, having such by-laws, shall annually appoint three or more 
persons, who alone shall be authorized to prosecute for viola- 
tions thereof. All warrants issued upon such prosecutions 
shall be returnable before any justice of the peace, or judge of 
the city or police court of the town or city. 

§ 31 The police in any city, and bailiffs, constables, 
sheriffs, and deputy sheriffs in their respective precincts, shall 
arrest all boys between seven and sixteen years of age, who 
habitually wander or loiter about the streets or public places, or 
anywhere beyond the proper control of their parents or guar- 
dians, during the usual school hours of the school term; and 
may stop any boy under sixteen years of age, during such 
hours, and ascertain whether he is a truant from school ; and 
if he be, shall send him to such school. 

§ 32 Every boy arrested three times or more under the 
provisions of § 31 shall be taken before the judge of the crimi- 
nal or police court, or a justice of the peace in the city, borough, 
or town where such arrest is made ; and if it shall appear that 
such boy has no lawful occupation, or is not attending school, 
or is growing up in habits of idleness or immorality, or is an 
habitual truant, he may be committed to any institution of in- 
struction or correction, or house of reformation in said city, 
borough, or town, for not more than three years, or, if such boy 
be not less than ten years of age, with the approval of the 
selectmen, to the Connecticut school for boys. 

§ 33 Officers other than policemen of cities shall receive 
for making the arrests required by §§ 31 and 32 such fees, not 
exceeding the fees allowed by law for making other arrests, as 
may be allowed by the selectmen of the town in which such 
arrests are made ; but unless a warrant was issued by a judge of 
the criminal or police court, or by a justice of the peace, the 
officer shall, before receiving his fees, present to the selectmen 
of the town a written statement showing the name of each boy 
arrested, the day on which the arrest was made, and if the boy 

' ^§ 274 281 



13 

was returned to school the name or number of the school to 
which he was so returned. 

§ 34 In all cases arising under the provisions of §§ 31, 32, q 3,^^9121 
or 33, a proper warrant shall be issued by the judge of the i869 
criminal court of the city, or by a justice of the peace in the ^^ 888 §2115 
borough or town, where such arrest is made ; and the father, if warrant and 
living, or if not, the mother or guardian of such boy, shall be *^^*"^g 
notified, if such parent or guardian can be found, of the day 
and time of hearing. The fees of the judge or justice shall 
be two dollars for such hearing ; and all expenses shall be paid 
by the city, borough, or town in and for which he exercised 
such jurisdiction. 

§ 35 After the hearing in any such case such judge or os sec 9128 
justice of the peace may, at his discretion, indefinitely suspend li^^cone 

judgment. judgment may 

§ 36 Upon the request of the parent or guardian of any oT^ecnw 
girl between seven and sixteen years of age, a warrant may be ^^69 1876 
issued for her arrest in the manner and on the conditions pro- i899 ch 19 
vided in the preceding sections with respect to boys ; and there- 
upon the same proceedings may be had as are above provided, comSTttel^to 
except that said girl may be committed to the Connecticut in- gchooi"*^ 
dustrial school for girls. ^ 

§ 37 The selectmen of any town may appoint committees QSsecisuo 
of school districts and janitors of school buildins^s, and other _ i^^„ . 

•', , , , . . ° I Kevl888§T0 

persons on nommation by the school visitors of the town or 
board of education of an incorporated school district, special school commit- 
constables. Said constables shall have power in the town in arspTciafwn*?^^ 
which they reside, and in adjoining towns when offenders ^**^^^^ 
have escaped thither, to arrest for truancy and other causes 
named in § 31, and for disturbance of schools and school meet- 
ings, and damage to school property, and to serve criminal 
process in all such cases. 



Chapter III 
Duties of Towns 

General Statutes Chapter 131 page 561 

§ 38 Public schools shall be maintained for at least thirty- ossecsiso 
six weeks in each year in every town and school district. i,^^.o^c,l?o™ 

. . , Rev 1888 §2118 

No town shall receive any money from the state treasury i889ch6 
for any district unless the school therein has been kept during i897 ch loi 



1899 ch 54 §1 
Number of 



the time herein required ; but no school need be maintained in 

any district in which the average attendance^ at the school in weeksofVchooi 

^§281 

' Method of obtaining average attendance is prescribed in register 



14 



studies 



Age of 
admission 



said district during the preceding year, ending the fourteenth 
day of July/ was less than eight.- 

In said schools shall be taught, by teachers found duly 
qualified,^ reading, spelling, writing, English grammar, geog- 
raphy, arithmetic, and United States history, and such other 
studies, including elementary science and training in manual 
arts, as may be prescribed by the board of school visitors, or 
town school committee. 

The public schools of every town and district shall be open 
to children over five years of age without discrimination on ac- 
count of race or color,* but school visitors, town school com- 
mittees, and boards of education, may, by vote at a meeting 
duly called, admit to any school children over four years of 



GS sec 2131 

1886 
Rev 1888 §2120 
1899 ch 54 §2 
Kindergartens 

GSsec22h8 
Wtio may 
employ teachers 



1903 ch 96 
Duties of 
citizenship 



G3sec213h 

1884 
Rev 1888 §2123 

Instruction in 
music 



G 8 sec 2162 

1886 

Rev 1888 

§§2100 2141 

1893 ch 157 

1901 ch 81 



Effects of 
alcohol and 
narcotics to be 
taught 



G S see 2163 
Rev 1888 §2100 

1893 ch 157 
1901 ch 81 §6 



§ 39 Any town or school district may establish and main- 
tain kindergartens which shall be open to children over three 
years of age. 

§ 40 Any town, unless otherwise provided, may direct the 
school visitors to employ the teachers for all public schools of 
the town for such terms of the schools as it may specify. ° 

§ 41 The duties of citizenship shall be taught in the public 
schools. The state board of education shall prepare and dis- 
tribute to every school an outline of questions and suggestions 
relating to said subject, and said outline may be used in said 
schools. 

§ 42 Any town, at its annual meeting, may direct its 
school visitors or town school committee to employ one or more 
teachers to give instruction in the rudiments and principles of 
vocal and instrumental music in its several schools, and the 
salary of such teachers shall be paid by such town. 

§ 43 Hygiene, including the effects of alcohol and nar- 
cotics on health and character, shall be taught as a regular 
branch of study to pupils above the third grade in public 
schools ; and, in grades above the fifth, text-books treating of 
the effects of alcohol and narcotics on the human system shall 
be used. This section shall apply to classes in ungraded schools 
corresponding to the grades designated herein, but shall not 
include high schools. Normal and teachers' training schools 
shall give instruction on the subjects prescribed in this section 
and concerning the best method of teaching the same.^ 

§ 44 Whenever the comptroller shall be satisfied that any 
town or district has failed to comply with the requirements of 

1 § 216 2 §§ 47 223 3 ^1 5g 66 104 179 

* A child is entitled to school privileges in a district if he is residing there 
59 Conn 491 See §§ 17 202 ^ ^ 123 ^ ^ 194 



15 

8 4^, he may withhold from such town or district the whole or Comptroller 

^ r .^ u 1 J- -J Ji may withhold 

any part of the school aividena/ school money 

§ 45 Any town at its annual meeting may direct the ossecnss 
school visitors, town school committee, or board of education j^evSllm 
to purchase, at the expense of said town, the text-books and issochi? 
other school supplies used in the public schools of said town, andsuppHes 
and said text-books and supplies shall be loaned to the pupils 
of said public schools free of charge, subject to such rules and 
regulations as the school visitors, town school committee, or 
board of education may prescribe. 

§ 46 Whenever an acting school visitor shall find that any g\s sec 2136 
pupils in the public schools are not supplied with the prescribed 1^97 ch 27 
text-books, and in the opinion of said acting school visitor the 
parents of the pupils are unable to buy the required books, ^ the be provided by 
said acting visitor shall purchase the said books, and shall 
certify the cost of the same to the selectmen, or the town school 
committee, as the case may be, who shall draw an order on the 
town treasurer for the payment of the bill. 

§ 47 Every town in which a school has been discon- i903"ch 210 §1 
tinned^ shall furnish, whenever necessary, by transportation or 
otherwise, school accommodations so that every child over school 
seven and under sixteen years of age can attend school as re- mustTe"^^*^*'^ 
quired in section 17. If any town refuses or neglects to fur- burnished 
nish such accommodations, the parent or guardian of any child 
who is deprived of schooling, or any agent or officer whose duty 
it is to compel the observance of the laws concerning attendance 
at school, may, in writing, request a hearing by the town school 
committee, board of school visitors, or board of education, as 
the case may be, and said officers shall give such person a hear- Hearing 
ing within ten days after receipt of his written request therefor, 
and shall make a finding within ten days after said hearing. 

§ 48 Any parent, guardian, or officer aggrieved by said 1903 ch 210 §2 
finding may take an appeal therefrom to the board of selectmen, Appeal 
which shall give a public hearing in the town in which the 
cause of complaint arises. If it appears that any child is 
illegally or unreasonably deprived of schooling, said board shall 
require the proper school officer to make arrangements to enable 
the parent or guardian to comply with the provisions of sec- 
tion 17. 

§ 49 Except as provided in § 179 the selectmen shall have as secern 
the management of any property pertaining to schools and be- RevS8Si26 
longing to the town ; shall lodge with the treasurer all bonds, 
leases, notes, and other securities, which have not been, or shall Duties of 

SGlGCtlDGll 

not be, intrusted to others by the grantor, the general assembly, 
'§10 2 §§97 170 3 §^38 223 



i6 



G SsecUUSS 

1886 
Kev 1888 §1756 

1899 ch 14 
Arbor and 
bird day 

QSsec21S9 
1893 ch 203 §1 

Flags for 
schoolhouBCfl 



GSsecnUO 
1893 ch 203 §2 

Flag-day 
exercises 



G S sec 21kl 
1897 ch 99 

Penalty for 
selectmen 
neglecting to 
provide flag 



G a sec 8137 

1856 
Rev 1888 §2125 



School fund 
treasurer 



GS tec 1795 

1831 1832 1865 

1885 

Rev 1888 §33 

1901 Ch 10 



or the town ; shall pay to the treasurer all money which they 
may collect and receive for the use of schools. They shall 
cause the boundary lines of school districts to be entered on the 
records of the town, designate the time, place, and object of 
holding the first meeting in a new district, and shall perform 
all other lawful acts required of them by the town, or necessary 
to carry into full effect the powers of towns with regard to 
schools.^ 

§ 50 The governor shall annually, in the spring, designate 
by official proclamation an arbor and bird day, to be observed 
in the schools, and in such other way as shall be indicated in 
such proclamation. 

§ 51 The selectmen shall provide every schoolhouse in 
which a school is maintained within their respective towns with; 
a United States flag of silk or bunting, not less than four feet in 
length, and a suitable flagstaff, or other arrangement whereby 
such flag may be displayed on the schoolhouse grounds every 
school day when the weather will permit, and on the inside of 
the schoolhouse on other school days, and renew such flag 
and apparatus when necessary. 

§ 52 Suitable exercises, having reference to the adoption 
of the national flag, shall be had on the fourteenth day of June 
in each year, or, in case that day shall not be a school day, on 
the school day preceding, or on such other days as the school 
visitors, board of education, or town school committee may pre- 
scribe. 

§ 53 If any board of selectmen shall wilfully refuse or 
neglect to provide the flag or apparatus required by § 51, or to 
renew such flag or apparatus, when necessary, for a period of 
thirty days after the reception by them of written notice signed 
by a school visitor, a member of the town school committee or 
board of education, or a resident of the school district in which 
the said school is located, that said schoolhouse is not provided 
with such flag or apparatus, or that such flag or apparatus 
should be renewed, each of such board of selectmen who has 
so received notice shall be fined not more than ten dollars. 

§ 54 Every town holding any permanent funds received 
from any school society or district shall annually elect, by 
ballot, a school fund treasurer, who shall have charge of such 
funds, keep a separate account of the same, and give bonds, 
with surety to the satisfaction of the selectmen, for the faithful 
discharge of the duties of his office.^ 

§ 55 The warning of every town meeting, annual or 
special, and of every meeting of a city, borough, school society, 
school district, or other public community, or of an ecclesiastical 

'§§124125 2 §87 



17 

society, or of proprietors of common fields, shall specify the Warnings of 

i • r 1-1 1 • • 1 111 A • ' 1 town city 

objects for which such meeting is to be held. A printed or borough and 
written warning of any town meeting, signed by the selectmen, ^°^' 

or a majority of them, and set upon the signposts in the town, 
or printed in a newspaper published in said town, at least five 
days previous to holding the meeting, including the day that 
notice is given, but not including the day of holding said meet- 
ing, shall be sufficient notice thereof, except in those towns 
where such warning is directed by special charter provision 
to be otherwise given ; but any town may, at an annual meeting, 
designate any other place or places, in addition to the sign- 
posts, at which such warnings shall be set up, and the select- 
men shall, on or before the day of such meeting, cause a copy 
of every such warning to be left with the town clerk, who shall 
record the same.^ 



Chapter IV * 

Transfer of the Property and Obligations of School Societies to 

Towns 

General Statutes, Chapter 133, page 565 

§ 56 All debts, obligations, or pecuniary trusts, of any ^^^^^""^ 
school society, heretofore existing, which pertain to schools, Revises §2127 

' Both warning and notice are requisite for legal meeting. 4 Day 62; 5 
Conn 391; 37 Conn 392; 44 Conn 157; 52 Conn 483; 58 Conn 488; 60 Conn 165. 

Warning is to be affirmatively proved. 8 Conn 247. Town clerk's record 
that meeting was legally warned '\^ prima facie evidence thereof. 25 Conn 555. 

The hour of meeting presumed to be a proper hour. 13 Conn 227. 

The notice should fairly state the purpose of meeting. 13 Conn 227; 15 
Conn 327; 36 Conn S3; 53 Conn 577; 58 Conn 4S8. 

The town may act within the limits of the warning. 55 Conn 245. 

The statute prescribed method of notice, while by its vote the society pre- 
scribed more general notice. 

Held^dX the society vote was merely directory. 15 Conn 327. 

A validating act of the general assembly cures all defects incident to the 
act validated. 52 Conn 45. 

Town has no inherent legal powers. 32 Conn 47. 

The warning needs no address, but addressed "to the inhabitants" is valid. 
32 Conn 47. 

Clerk's certificate imports verity only as to matters of lawful consideration. 
44 Conn 158; 51 Conn 22. 

Five days before the meeting, means five days before the day of meeting. 
51 Conn 22. 

A meeting illegally warned voted a guarantee; a subsequent legal meeting 
voted " to let conditions of former vote remain as they now stand." 

Held vlo\. to be a ratification. 51 Conn 22. 

The town is not stopped by erroneous record of town clerk, as against one 
acting under it. 51 Conn 22. 

Meeting voted to adjourn "to Wednesday evening"; held to mean the 
next Wednesday. 52 Conn 45. 

Town may by acquiescence ratify unauthorized act of selectmen. 59 Conn 
447- 



8 



Debts of school 
societies; liabil- 
ity of towns] 

G S sec 2152 
1856 1860 
Kev 1888 §2128 

Kecords of 
school societies 



G S sec 2153 

1856 
Rev 1888 §2129 



Property of 
school societies 



G S sec 2151, 
1856 1857 1878 
Rev 1888 §2130 
1889 ch 47 §3 



Boards of edu- 
cation; powers 
and duties 



shall remstin in force against the town or towns in which such 
society was situated. 

§ 57 The records of school societies shall be deposited and 
forever kept with the records of the towns in which such 
societies were situated ; and where any school society lay within 
the limits of two or more towns, with the records of the town in 
which the greater part of its territory lay; and said records, 
whether they appear to have been made at a meeting held in 
pursuance of a warning or otherwise, or whether informal or 
otherwise, provided the same can be clearly understood, are 
validated and confirmed.^ 

§ 58 All property heretofore held for school purposes by 
school societies shall vest in the towns in which such societies 
were situated, to be held by such towns for the same purposes. 
Where there were two or more school societies in a town, any 
of which had a permanent fund for the support of schools, such 
fund shall be held in trust by said town, for the support of 
schools for the inhabitants of the territory formerly embraced 
within such society ; and w^here any school society lay within the 
limits of two or more towns, and had any permanent fund, it 
shall be divided between such towns, and each shall hold its 
portion in trust for the support of schools for the inhabitants 
of that portion of such society lying within its limits ; and the 
indebtedness of any such society shall be apportioned in the 
same manner between said towns. Such distribution or appor- 
tionment shall be made by the selectmen of said towns and if 
they cannot agree, then upon application of the selectmen of 
either town, and notice to the other, by a committee of three 
disinterested persons appointed by the superior court in the 
county in which either town is situated, who shall report to said 
court, which report, when accepted, shall be final ; and such 
agreement or report shall be recorded upon the records of each 
town.^ 

§ 59 School societies heretofore organized under the act 
of 1855, entitled ''An act in addition to and in alteration of an 
act concerning education," which are not coextensive with the 
towns in which they are situated, shall be and remain school 
districts of said towns, with all the powers and duties of school 
districts, as specified in this title ; ^ 

Except that each shall annually choose on the third Monday 
of September, instead of a district committee, a board of educa- 
tion consisting of six or nine persons, who shall be chosen by 
ballot, one-third to be chosen each year, to serve for three years 

^ Effect of statute illustrated. 55 Conn 144 

^ Property held in trust by bequest not affected by the statute. 39 Conn 63. 

^ Chapter x page 36 



19 

and until others are elected in their places. That number of 
persons sufficient to fill the board who have the highest number 
of votes shall be elected. 

Said board shall have all the powers and be subject to all 
the duties of district committees/ and shall also have the gen- 
eral superintendence of the public schools in the district and the 
management of its property ; 

Shall lodge all bonds, leases, notes, and other securities, with 
the treasurer of said district, unless the same have been in- 
trusted to others by the grantors, or the general assembly; 

Pay into the treasury of the district all moneys which they 
may receive for the support of schools ; 

Determine the number and qualifications of the scholars to 
be admitted into each school ; 

Supply the requisite number of qualified teachers f 

Ascertain annually, during the first two weeks of Septem- 
ber, the expense of maintaining the schools under their superin- 
tendence during the year ending the fourteenth day of the pre- 
vious July,^ and report the same, with the amount of moneys 
received towards the payment thereof, to the district, at a meet- 
ing to be held' on the third Monday of September in each year ; 
shall, at the same time, make a full report of their doings, and 
the condition of such schools, and all important matters con- 
cerning the same ; 

And shall perform all lawful acts required of them by the 
district, or necessary to carry into effect the powers and duties 
herein defined. 

All existing school societies, in which school districts have 
been or may be abolished, may avail themselves of the privi- 
leges specified in this section.* 

Special laws relating to particular societies or districts shall 
not be affected by this section.^ 

§ 60 The property of the school societies specified in gs sec 2155 
§ 59 shall not be affected by the provisions of this title. Kevi888§2i3i 

§ 61 The board of education, appointed by any school affected^by^this 
district organized under the provisions of § 59, shall, within ^i^^® 
said district, possess all the powers and be subject to all the GSsecnse 
duties of school visitors in the several towns f Rev 18^2132 

^ Chapter xii page 49 ^ g^ 38 105 ^ 21b 

'^ Districts which availed themselves of the provisions of this chapter were 
city district of New Haven (see page 91), Westville district of New Haven, 
Middletown city district, Norwich central district, Norwich town street district, 
Norwich P^alls district (see page 95), Waterbury city district (see page 100), 
for Orange union district (see page 99). New Haven, Waterbury, and Nor- 
wich falls districts are now managed under special charters 

^ See chapter xxiii page 85 ^ Chapter viii page 26 



20 



Powers of board 
of education 



G 8 sec 2157 

1858 
Rev 1888 §2133 



Apportionment 
ofpublic money 



O 8 sec 9158 

1885 
Rev 1888 §2134 



Procedure in 
electing boards 
of education 



Shall make their annual report to the secretary of the state 
board of education, and send their returns and certificates di- 
rectly to the comptroller ; 

May appoint an acting school visitor in said district, who 
shall possess, within said district, all the powers and be subject 
to all the duties of similar officers appointed by school visitors/ 
The authority of the board of school visitors of the town in 
which said district is situated shall extend only to the remain- 
ing portion of said town ; and their returns and certificates 
shall include only the children of such remaining portion. 

§ 62 The comptroller, on application of the board of edu- 
cation of such district, shall draw an order on the treasurer in 
favor of such district for the proportionate amount to which 
such district may be entitled of all moneys appropriated by law 
for the benefit, support, and encouragement of public schools, 
as is provided in respect to towns f and the town in which said 
district is situated shall be entitled to receive only its propor- 
tionate amount of such public money for the children in the 
remaining portion of said town. 

§ 63 In every school district in which a board of educa- 
tion is required by law to be elected by ballot, the ballot boxes 
shall be open for the reception of votes, in districts having less 
than four hundred voters, three hours and not longer ; in dis- 
tricts having over four hundred and less than one thousand 
voters, five hours and not longer ; and no box for the reception 
of ballots shall remain open later than half past eight in the 
afternoon of the dav of such election. 



G 8 sec esse 

1856 
Rev 1888 §2215 
See §§2130 2145 

May be estab- 
lished by towns 

G 8 sec 2237 

1861 
Rev 188« §2210 
1889 ch 181 
1893 chs 128 

152 
Committee how 



Chapter V 
High Schools 

General Statutes, Chapter 138, page 582 

§ 64 Any town may establish and maintain a high school 
within its limits, and for such purposes purchase, receive, hold, 
and convey any property, build and repair schoolhouses, lay 
taxes, and make contracts and adopt regulations for the man- 
agement of such school.^ 

§ 65 Any town which is not a consolidated district may 
choose by ballot at its annual town meeting a committee"* of 
three, four, or five residents of the town, who shall have all such 
powers and be subject to such duties in relation to such schools 
as are by law imposed upon district committees in relation to 
district schools.^ If the number to be chosen is three or four, 

1 § loi 2 § 207 

^ For organization of Norwalk High School see page 95 

■* § 87 ^ Chapter xii page 49 May emplpy and dismiss teachers § 105 



21 

no person shall vote for more than two ; if five, for not more 
than three. The number of persons sufficient to fill the com- 
mittee who have the highest number of votes shall be elected. 
In case of a tie that person whose name stands first or highest 
on the greatest number of ballots shall be elected. 

§ 66 When any town shall maintain any such high school, o a sec 2238 
the board of school visitors or town school committee, as the RevS^ii? 
case may be, shall prescribe rules for the admission of scholars, i889chi8i 

^ , \ .' .y , , , , .^ . ' 1893 chsl38 

and for their studies, books, and classmcation ; 153 

Examine all candidates for teachers in such school and give 
to those of satisfactory moral character, literary attainments, sciScom"^^ 
and ability to teach, a certificate stating what branches they are ^Jj^ol ^sltors 
found capable of teaching ; 

Visit such school at least twice during each term ; 

May revoke the certificate of any teacher, at any time, for the 
causes provided in § 194. 

In towns having no town school committee the school 
visitors may appoint a high school committee whenever the 
town fails to elect one ; and such committee, so appointed, shall 
have the same powers and duties as if appointed by the town.^ 

§ 67 Any town in which a high school is not maintained GSseessm 
shall pay the whole or any part of the tuition fee of any child 
who resides with his parents or guardian in said town, and Tuition, when 
who, with the written consent of the school visitors, or town P^idbytown 
school committee, attends a high school in another town, pro- 
vided that the high school shall be approved by the state board 
of education. Such tuition fees shall be paid annually by the 
town treasurer upon the order of the chairman of the board of 
school visitors or town school committee. 

§ 68 Every town shall annually in July receive from the GSsec22uo 
treasurer of the state an amount equal to two-thirds of the ag- ■'^?899\?f 71^^ 
gregate of the sums which have been actually paid by the town ^^^^ ^^ ^^ 
for tuition fees under the provisions of § 67 ; provided that not j^ein^^m-ggment 
more than thirty dollars shall be paid by the state for each in part byjstate 
scholar attending from any town. 

§ 69 The number and names of the children so attend- g s sec ft2ui 
ing high schools in towns other than those in which they reside, i897ch249§3 
and the high schools which they have attended, shall, on or j^^j^^gj. ^^^ 
before the first dav of July in each year, be certified under oath names of chu- 

■' . dreii to be re- 

by an acting school visitor of the town in which the pupils re- ported 
side to the state board of education.^ The comptroller shall, 
on application of said board, draw an order on the treasurer in 
favor of the town for the amount provided in § 68. 

^ §§ 65 87 2 Blanks are furnished by state board of education ; see note § 2 



22 



1903 ch 187 
Incorporated 
and endowed 
high schools 
may be approved 
by state board 
of education 



1903 ch 182 §1 



Cost of transpor- 
tation must be 
paid by town 



1903 ch 182 §2 



Town reim- 
bursed in part 



1903 ch 182 §3 



Report to state 
board of educa- 
tion 



Order 



§ 70 The state board of education may examine any in- 
corporated or endowed high school or academy in this state, 
and, if it appears that said school or academy has a satisfactory 
high school course of study and sufficient equipment for high 
school instruction, said board shall approve said school or 
academy under the provisions of this chapter, and any town in 
which a high school or academy is not maintained shall pay the 
whole or a part of the tuition fee of scholars attending such 
school or academy, and such town shall be reimbursed therefor 
by the state under the terms and conditions of this chapter. 

§ 71 Any town in which a high school is not maintained 
shall pay the reasonable and necessary cost of railway or other 
transportation of any child who resides with his parents or 
guardian in said town and who, with the written consent of the 
school visitors or town school committee, attends a high school 
in another town ; provided, that such high school be approved 
by the state board of education. Such necessary and reason- 
able cost of railway or other transportation shall be paid 
annually by the town treasurer upon the order of the chairman 
of the board of school visitors or town school committee. 

§ 72 Every town shall, annually, in July, receive from the 
treasurer of the state an amount equal to one-half of the ag- 
gregate of the sums which have actually been paid by the town 
for transportation under the provisions of § 71 ; provided, that 
not more than twenty dollars shall be paid by the state for 
each scholar conveyed. 

§ 73 The number and names of the children so con- 
veyed to high schools in towns other than those in which they 
reside, the names of the high schools which they have at- 
tended, and the amount paid by the town for the conveyance of 
each child shall, on or before the first day of July in each year, 
be certified to the state board of education by an acting school 
visitor, under oath, of the town in which the children reside. 
On application of said board the comptroller shall draw an 
order on the treasurer of the state in favor of the town for the 
amount provided in § 72. 



GSeecSlkS 

1885 
Rev 1888 §2119 

1893 cb 227 
1895 ch 210 §1 

1903 ch 135 



Chapter VI 

Evening Schools 

§ 74 Every town and school district having ten thousand 

or more inhabitants shall establish and maintain evening schools 

for the instruction of persons over fourteen years of age, in 

such branches as the proper school authorities of the town or 

^ See note § 2 



23 

district shall prescribe ; ^ and on petition of at least twenty per- Evening school 
sons over fourteen years of age for instruction in any one study ^^ ^^^^^^ *°^°^ 
usually taught in a high school, which persons are, in the 
opinion of the board of school visitors, town school committee, 
or board of education, competent to pursue high school studies, 
said town or district shall provide for such instruction ; but this 
section shall not apply to a district located in a town which 
maintains such schools. 

§ 75 Boards of school visitors, town school committees, Qssectiue 
or boards of education, as the case may be, shall provide rooms, i885 

examine, employ, and pay, the teachers, and shall have all the i893 ch 227 1895 
powers and duties in relation to evenins^ schools that are by ^, 

z -,,. . '11 11 Management of 

law conferred on them m connection with day schools. evening schools 

§ 76 No person over fourteen and under sixteen years GSsecsw 
of age, who cannot read and write, shall be employed in, any i8jfciS^2fo p 
town where public evening schools are established unless he 
can produce every school month of twentv days a certificate Employment of 

-, ,% . ,,,■'.-,, child not attend- 

irom the teacher 01 an evening school showing that he has at- ing evening 
tended such school eighteen consecutive evenings in the current ^^ °° ' "^^^^ ^ 
school month, and is a regular attendant. Every person who 
shall em.ploy a child contrary to the provisions of this section 
shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, and the state board of 
education shall enforce the provisions of this section as provided 
in § 27. 

§ 77 The board of school visitors, or town school com- ossecsius 
mittee, as the case may be, of any town or the board of education j^gv^ilss 
in any district, wherein such evening schools are established and Ull^^lot^ 
maintained, shall annually, on the first Monday in July, certify I895 ch 210 §4 
to the comptroller the average number of scholars attending 
such schools within the current school year, and the comptroller f o" eveSng^^ 
shall thereupon draw his order on the treasurer of the state ^^^^^^^ 
in favor of such board of education, board of school visitors, or 
town school committee, for the use of such schools, in the sum of 
two dollars and a quarter for each scholar included in the 
number so certified, and the treasurer shall pay the same upon 
presentation. No money shall be paid under the provisions of 
this section unless such evening schools have been maintained 
for at least seventy-five sessions in each school year, nor until 
the board of school visitors, board of education, or town school 
committee has reported to the state board of education concern- 
ing the condition and progress of said schools.^ 

§ 78 Any town of less than ten thousand inhabitants may, i885 

at its annual town meeting, or at a meeting warned for that ^i893 chf^^^ 



Blanks are furnished : see note § 2 



1895 ch 210 §6 



24 



Establishment 
of evening 
schools in 
smaller towns 

O S sec 2150 
1895 ch 2104§5 



When towns 
may be relieved] 
from establish- 
ing 



purpose, vote to establish evening schools under the provisions 
of §§ 74, 75, and 77. 

§ 79 If any board of school visitors, board of education, 
or town school committee, shall deem it inexpedient or impracti- 
cable to establish a school under the provisions of this chapter 
and shall, on or before the fifteenth of October in any year, 
apply in writing to the state board of education to be relieved 
from the provisions of this chapter, and if said board shall, upon 
investigation, find the application to be reasonable, and shall so 
state in writing, the town or district so applying by its board of 
visitors, board of education, or town school committee, shall 
not be subject to the provisions of § 74 until the beginning of 
the school year following the date of the application. 



O S sec 2800 

1886 
Rev 1888 §3663 
Extra expense 
of town or dis- 
trict paid by 
county 

GS sec 2801, 

1886 
Rev 1888 §3664 



Managers to fix 
necessary ex- 
penses 



1903 ch 200i 

Children in 
county homes, 
how enumerated 



G S sec 2259 
1895 ch 222 §2 

Establishment 
of schools 



Chapter VII 
Schools at Temporary Homes 

General Statutes, Chapter i68, page 717 

§ 80 The necessary extra expense incurred by any town 
or school district in providing school accommodations and in- 
struction for the inmates of any temporary homes located 
therein shall be paid by the county. 

§ 81 The board of managers of temporary homes in any 
county shall be the judge of what are necessary extra expenses, 
under § 80, for school accommodations and instruction for in- 
mates of temporary homes located therein, and no such ex- 
pense shall be allowed or collected of such county unless it 
shall have been incurred with the approval of such board, nor 
until the account of the same shall have been audited and ap- 
proved by such board. 

§ 82 Children committed to county homes shall be enu- 
merated in the towns or districts in which said county homes 
are located, but children placed by the officers of said homes in 
families shall be enumerated only in the towns or districts in 
which said families reside. The enumerator of the town or 
district in which the county home is located shall make a sep- 
arate list of the children in the county home and certify said 
list to the school visitors or town school committee as the case 
may be. 

§ 83 The county commissioners may establish schools at 
the county homes if in their opinion it is for the interest of the 
children. In case the county commissioners establish and 
maintain such a school in any county the treasurer of the town 
in which the school is located shall pay to the county commis- 
sioners from the amount paid to the town by the comptroller 



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that proportionate part which was derived from the enumera- 
tion of the children in the county home. Said commissioners 
shall apply the sum so determined to the payment of teachers, 
and to no other purpose. Said schools shall be open during the 
same days, hours, and terms as the schools in the district or 
town in which the school is located, and the branches taught 
shall be those prescribed by the proper school officers for the 
schools of the town. 

§ 84 The county commissioners may employ and pay as Qs$ec2260 
teachers of the schools at the county homes persons found i895ch222§3 
qualified as provided in this section, and shall provide books 
for the children and apparatus for teaching. The state board teacheS^^^ ° 
of education shall examine the persons employed by the county 
commissioners, and if the candidates are found qualified in re- 
spect of character, education, and teaching ability, may give 
them certificates authorizing them to teach in said schools, and 
said board may revoke such certificates, and the county com- 
missioners shall not employ any person who does not hold such 
certificate. The said board shall appoint an acting visitor or 
visitors,^ who shall inspect and examine said schools at least 
twice in each term, and the county commissioners shall not 
pay any teacher nor maintain said school unless said acting * 

visitor shall certify in writing that said school has been for 
each month kept in conformity to law. 

§ 85 In case children are placed by county commissioners 1903 ch 211 §1 
in homes in towns other than the town in which the county 
home is located, the school visitors, town school committee, or of^expenseTe^* 
board of education of the town in which said children are tween county 

and town 

placed shall ascertain the cost of maintaining the school or 
schools in which said children attend for the year ending the 
fourteenth of the preceding July, and, having deducted from 
this amount the sums received by the town for said children 
during said year from the state appropriation, shall apportion 
the remrnider of the cost of said school or schools between the 
town and the county in proportion to the number of persons 
between the ages of four and sixteen years as ascertained by 
the enumeration made in the October preceding and shall pre- 
sent a copy of said apportionment to the county commissioners, 
and the county commissioners shall cause the proportionate ex- 
pense of said children located in families to be paid to the town 
in which said children are placed. 

§ 86 Whenever the town wholly maintains the school 1903 ch,2ii §2 
at the county home in any county, the board of school visitors, whencounty 
town school committee, or board of education of said town ™n^^^^°^^ 

1 § 101 



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shall ascertain the expense of said school at the county home 
as provided in section 85 of this act, and shall certify the ex- 
pense to the county commissioners, who shall pay the whole 
amount so certified. 



Chapter VIII 
Town School Officers^ 

General Statutes, Chapter 134, page 567 

8 sec 1808 § 87 . . . Treasurers of town deposit funds^ and of 

Rev 1888 §44 Other towu trust f unds,^ agents of town deposit funds,* . . . 

I89f^c?8^?52 high school committees,^ school visitors,^ town school com- 

1897 ch^i58 mittees,'^ and library directors^ shall be voted for by ballot ; but 

1903 ch 162 

^ Powers and duties of selectmen in connection with 

1 Etiforce?}ie7it of laws relating to attendance 

a approve commitment of truants to Connecticut School for Boys § 32 

b allow fees of truant officers § 33 

c appoint special constables on nomination of school visitors § 37 

2 Boundary lines of districts § 125 

3 District meetings 

a determine in certain cases place of meeting when there is no school- 
house § 135 
b give notice of meeting if no district officers ^136 
c call meeting of new district § 144 

4 Consolidated districts 

a shall appraise property in case of joint districts § 182 

b shall give notice of consolidation to adjoining towns § 186 

c may call special meetings to close up affairs of abolished districts 

§ 187 
d shall lay tax and pay debts after consolidation § 188 
e shall collect all dues and demands in favor of abolished districts 

§ 189 
f determine amounts to be paid by districts to town on abandonment 

of union system and lay tax if necessary § 190 
g shall provide ballot boxes for election in certain cases § 174 

5 Estimates 

shall in joint board meeting make preliminary estimates § 215 

6 Appropriations 

a shall in joint board meeting fix amounts for respective districts 

§ 217 _ 
b may as joint board appropriate money for libraries § 201 
c shall as joint board report cost for preceding year to town meeting 

§ 217 
d shall in joint board meeting pass upon cost of school in excess of 

appropriation § 219 
e shall cause sums due joint districts to be paid § 226 
/ shall give order for money in case of district neglecting to open 

school § 152 

7 Taxation 

act with assessors as board of relief § 165 

8 Manage property of town in certain cases § 49 

9 Provide flags §§5153 

ID Hear appeals zvhen school discontinued § 47 

11 Take bond of school treasurer § 54 

12 Warn school society or district meetings §55 

13 Fill vacancies in certain cases §§ 90 93 

'§233 3 §§54 183 4^234 'S65 6 §96 '§§176177 '§243 



^ Appointment 



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all other town officers provided for by law shall be appointed Ballot 
by the board of selectmen of the several towns respectively. 

Any town at a town meeting duly warned for the purpose, 
may pass votes determining, within the limits by law provided,^ 
the number of its officers and prescribing the mode in which 
they shall be voted for at subsequent meetings, but no altera- 
tion of such number shall take effect until after the adjournment 
of the meeting by which it was adopted. 

§ 88 In all elections of town officers a plurality of the assecisoQ 
votes cast shall be sufficient to elect, unless it is otherwise ex- EevisS^ps 
pressly provided by law.^ S dec?°^'°*^^ 

§ 89 The town clerks of the several towns shall, within QSsecmw 
ten days after the election of such officers,* return to the secre- ReviS?s54 
tary of state the names of the persons elected to the offices of i889chii5 
. . . school visitors, or school committee with date of ex- 

. ^- r J. T- J. 111^'^ Returns by town 

piration 01 term. . . . Kvery town clerk neglectmg to cierk of election 
make such return shall be fined not more than twenty-five ^^^ 
dollars. 

§ 90 The terms of office of all elective town officers, when QSsecisoe 
not otherwise prescribed, shall be for one year from the date i878 

of their election, and the terms of those appointed by the board Kev 1888 §43 
of selectmen shall expire on the day of the annual town meeting official terms of 
next succeeding their appointment. ^''''^'' ''^''^'' 

§ 91 . . . Any person elected to any other town office assecisn 
than that of assessor or town clerk, and accepting the same, or ^^"2' YIe? ^^^^ 
not declaring his refusal to accept, who shall neglect to per- Kevi888§57 
form the duties of the office, shall be fined not more than ten 
dollars ; and any person elected to any town office to which he fusing to accept 
is eligible, who shall refuse to accept the same and take the tin d^uties ^^'^' 
oath prescribed by law, shall, unless he has reasonable excuse 
for such refusal, be fined five dollars. . . . Every mod- 
erator of a town meeting who shall neglect to make any return 
required by law shall be fined twenty dollars. 

§ 92 No person shall be ineligible to serve as a member as sec 2115 
of a board of education, board of school visitors, town school ^ .olo^L^n-, 

. . , . ^ , ^ Rev 1888 §2101 

committee, or district committee, or be disqualified from hold- women may be 
ing such office, by reason of sex.^ school officers 

§ 93 If any town office in any town shall be vacant by the ossecisiu 
neglect of the town to elect or appoint, or the refusal of any j^eTilslses 
person appointed to act, or by the death or removaP of any 
person appointed, or from any other cause, such town, if such fiued^^^^^ 

^ In towns having no town school committee the high school committee 
may in certain cases be appointed by school visitors § 66 

'^§§6595176244 3 See S^§ 96 177 244 ^ See §244 

^ Town school officers must be elected at annual town meeting See §§ 94 
177; also town library directors § 244 

® Removal means removal from the town 19 Conn 334 



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G S sec 180k 
1856 1875 
Kev 1888 §41 
School visitors 



6 S sees 132 
1856 1866 1867 
1869 1875 1877 
Kev 1888 §2121 
1889 ch 219 



Classification of 
school visitors 



G 3 sec 21S3 

1872 
Rev 1888 §2122 



Election of 
school visitors 



O S sec 2159 
1856 1867 1872 
Rev 1888 §2135 



Officers 

Duties of board 
or committee 



office is an elective office, may in legal town meeting fill the 
vacancy ; but until the town shall fill it, such vacancy may be 
filled by the selectmen, and the selectmen shall fill all vacancies 
that may arise in offices to which they have power of appoint- 
ment.^ 

§ 94 There shall be elected by every town, at its annual 
town meeting, such number of school visitors as such town is 
required by law to elect, and they shall be elected in the manner 
and for the term or terms by law prescribed.^ 

§ 95 There shall be in every town, unless otherwise pro- 
vided, a board of school visitors,^ composed of three, six, or 
nine members, as such town may determine, divided into three 
equal classes ; the first class shall hold office until the next 
annual town meeting, the second class until the second annual 
town meeting, and the third class until the third annual town 
meeting following, and until others are elected in their places, 
provided, that when said board is composed of only three mem- 
bers, they shall not be divided into classes, and shall be elected 
for three years. Should a vacancy occur, the remaining mem- 
bers of the board may fill it till the next annual town meeting, 
when vacancies shall be filled in the manner prescribed in 
§ 96, and the ballots shall distinctly specifv the vacancy to be 
filled. 

§ 96 School visitors shall be chosen by ballot. If the 
number to be chosen be two, four, six, or eight, no person shall 
vote for more than half of such number. If the number to be 
chosen be three, no person shall vote for more than two ; if five, 
not more than three ; if seven, not more than four ; if nine, not 
more than five. That number of persons sufficient to fill the 
board, who have the highest number of votes, shall be elected. 
In case of a tie that person whose name stands first or highest 
on the greatest number of ballots shall be elected. 

§ 97 The board of school visitors or town school com- 
mittee shall annually choose from their number a chairman and 
a secretary. 

They shall prescribe rules* for the management, studies,* 
classification, and discipline of the public schools. 

And, subject to the control of the state board of education, 
the text-books to be used f 



^ This section does not apply to town high school committees §§ 65 87 95 

2 When school district is organized under chapter iv the authority of school 
visitors extends to remaining portion of town only § 61 ^ See § 87 

* Rules as to attendance see § 17 

In the absence of rules prescribed by the school board or other proper 
authority the teacher may make all necessary and proper rules for the regula- 
tion of the school 53 Conn 481 

5 §38 «§§2III 



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Shall make proper rules for the arrangement, use, and safe- 
keeping, within their respective jurisdictions, of the school 
libraries provided in part by the state, and approve the books 
selected therefor ;^ 

They shall approve plans for schoolhouses,^ 
And superintend any high"^ or graded school, in the manner 
specified in this title.* 

^ Chap XV page 59 '-^ § 154 ^ Chap v page 21 § 66 

^ Powers and duties not given above are stated in connection with the fol- 
lowing 

1 Vacancies in district offices § 148 

2 Enforcement of laws relating to 

a employment of children ^§ 7 24 27 
b attendance 

grant leaving certificates §19 

nominate to selectmen persons to be appointed special constable 

§37 

3 Normal school 

shall assist in selection of students § 14 

4 Returns to school visitors by 

a district committee of beginning and close of term § 171 

b district committee of enumeration §§171 202 

c district committee of enumeration in the parts of joint districts 

§ 171 
d district committee of receipts, expenditures, statistics, etc § 171 
e district clerk of names of district officers § 147 

5 School buildings 

« inspection §101 Buildings must be in satisfactory condition §153 
b may fix sites on application of district of adjoining town § 155 

6 Ettumeration and distribution of state grants 

a shall make enumeration if committee fails § 202 

b shall examine returns of enumeration § 204 

c shall lodge returns with town treasurer § 204 

d shall make returns to comptroller § 204 

e shall certifiy to comptroller that schools have been kept according 

to law § 207 
f shall withhold certificate if schools have not been kept according to 

law § 211 

7 Estimates 

a shall as a joint board with selectmen make preliminary estimates 
and notify committees § 215 

b shall as joint board with selectmen present estimates to town meet- 
ing § 217 

8 Appropriations 

a shall as joint board with selectmen fix amounts and notify each dis- 
trict § 217 

b may as joint board with selectmen appropriate moneys for school 
libraries § 201 

9 Expenses 

a shall as joint board with selectmen report cost of schools for pre- 
ceding year to town meeting § 217 

b shall as joint board with selectmen pass upon expenses in addition 
to amounts appropriated § 219 

c apportion expenses of joint districts and report to selectmen of each 
town §^ 109 226 

10 Payment of teachers 

shall give certificate to selectmen that schools have been kept 
according to law § 219 

1 1 Consolidated districts 

on abandonment of town system town school committee remains 
board of visitors § 192 



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GS sec 216k 

1874 
Kev 1888 §2142 



Meetings of 
board or com- 
mittee 



Q 8 sec 2169 

1872 1882 

Rev 1888 §2146 

Duties of secre- 
tary 



O 8 sec 2170 

1882 
Rev 1888 §1147 



Forfeitures to 
be reported 



08 sec 2165 
1656 1872 1884 
Rev 1888 §2143 
1893 ch 41 



§ 98 The chairman of the board of school visitors or of 
the town school committee or, in case of his absence or in- 
ability to act, the secretary, shall call a meeting of the board 
at least once every six months, and whenever he deems it 
necessary or is requested in writing so to do by three of its 
members. If no meeting is called within fourteen days after 
such a request has been made, one may be called by any three 
members, by giving the usual written notice to the others. 

§ 99 The secretary of the board of school visitors, or of 
the town school committee, as the case may be, shall keep a 
record of all its proceedings and of those of the acting school 
visitors, in a book which he shall provide for that purpose at 
the expense of the town ; shall submit to the town at its annual 
meeting a written report of the doings of the board or com- 
mittee with the report of the acting school visitors ; and on or 
before the fifteenth of October send two copies of said reports 
to the secretary of the state board of education ; and shall fur- 
nish such additional returns and statistics respecting the schools 
of the town as said board may call for. And if the returns and 
statistics called for by the secretary of the state board of edu- 
cation shall not be sent to him on or before said fifteenth of 
October, then every town and every school district required by 
law to make separate returns, whose returns and statistics shall 
be negligently delayed till after that day, shall forfeit of the 
sum per child which is paid from the state treasury one per 
cent, for the first week of such delay, two per cent, for a delay 
of two weeks, three per cent, for a delay of three weeks, five 
per cent, for a delay of four weeks, and ten per cent, for a delay 
exceeding four weeks. ^ 

§ 100 The secretary of the state board of education shall 
annually, in January, give to the comptroller, in writing, a list 
of the towns and districts which have incurred the forfeiture 
described in § 99, with the percentage of forfeiture in each 
case ; and the comptroller, in making payment of school moneys 
aforesaid, shall deduct the amount of money which each town 
or district shall have forfeited under the provisions of said 
section. 

§ loi The board of school visitors, the town school com- 
mittee, or the board of education, shall annually assign the duty 
of visiting the schools of the town to one or more of their 

12 May in connection with committee admit nonresident scholars to district 
schools § 156 

13 May discontinue small schools and provide transportation § 223 

14 May make complaint to board of health when sanitary condition of 
schoolhouse is unsatisfactory ^ 264 

i§ii 



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number, who shall be called the acting school visitor, or visitors^, Duties of acting 

and who shall visit such schools at least twice during each school visitors 

term, once within four weeks after the opening, and again 

during the four weeks preceding the close ; at which visit the 

schoolhouse and outbuildings, school register,^ and library^ shall 

be examined, and the studies, discipline, mode of teaching, and 

general condition of the school investigated. Half a day shall 

be spent in each school so visited, unless otherwise directed. 

They shall, one week at least before the annual town meeting, 

submit to the board or to the committee, as the case may be, 

a full written report of their proceedings, and of the condition 

of the several schools during the year preceding, with plans 

and suggestions for their improvement. 

§ 102 Boards of education, town school committees, and asiecnee 
boards of school visitors may appoint a person, not one of their icq8^c2144 
own number, to be acting school visitor or superintendent* of Actin? school 
schools, who shall have all the powers, perform all the duties, yisitor or super- 

1 • 1 -1 1 1 1 r ■ 1 1 • • intendent 

and receive the pay prescribed by law for acting school visitors. 
Any town at its annual town meeting, or at a special meeting 
duly called for that purpose, may fix the compensation of the 
acting school visitor or superintendent. 

§ 103 The secretary and other acting school visitors shall (^Ssechsss 
receive two dollars a day each while actually employed, and a Kevi888§3734 
like proportion for parts of days, and such further compensa- orac^fj^^schooi 
tion as their respective towns may fix at an annual meeting, visitors 

§ 104 School visitors, town school committees, or boards QSsecnus 
of education shall, as a board, or by a committee by them ap- ■^^^itiv^sss^^^ 
pointed, examine^ all persons desiring to teach in the public ^1197^222? 
schools ; and give to those with whose moral character and ^^^Igg^^^sof^ 
ability they are satisfied, if found qualified to teach reading, i90i ch 8I §5 
writing, arithmetic, and gframmar, the rudiments of sreoffraphy 

J , .^' ^ . .. , ' . .. • 1 R Examination of 

and history, and the rudiments of drawing if required,** a cer- teachers; certifi- 
tificate authorizing the holder to teach in any public school in 
the town or district so long as desired, without further exami- 
nation unless specially ordered ; such certificate may limit the 
authority to teach to a specified time or in a specified school. 
No certificate to teach in grades above the third in graded 
schools nor in classes corresponding to such grades in un- 
graded schools shall be granted to any person who has not 
passed a satisfactory examination in hygiene, including the 
effects of alcohol and narcotics on health and character."^ If 
a person is examined and found qualified to teach branches 
other than those required in all cases, such branches shall be 

' See ch ix page 34 '^ ^ 199 ^ ch xv ^§§115119 ^ ^g ng ng 

6 See §§17 38 ^§43 



32 



G Ssec22k8 
1856 1857 1867 
Rev 1888 
§§2123.2130 
2135 2155 2197 

2213 2216 
1895, ch. 131. 



May employ 
teachers 



O S sec nh9 
1895 ch 67 

School visitor 
not to be teacher 



O S sec 22 k2 
State grant 



GS sec 2167 

1856 1870 1879 

Rev 1888 §2145 

1899 ch 19 



named in his certificate. Said certificate shall be signed by a 
majority of the board or committee or by all the members of the 
committee appointed to examine. They may revoke the cer- 
tificates of such teachers as shall at any time be found incom- 
petent to teach or to manage a school, or fail to conform to their 
requirements.^ 

§ 105 Town school committees, boards of education, and 
high school and district committees unless otherwise directed 
by the district or ordered by the town, shall employ and dis- 
miss the teachers for the schools of their respective towns or 
districts ;^ but no district committee shall employ a teacher for 
a longer period of time than that for which he may have been 
elected without first obtaining, at a meeting of said district 
legally called for that purpose, a majority vote in favor of such 
proposed action.^ Any town, unless otherwise provided, may 
direct the school visitors to employ the teachers for all public 
schools of the town for such terms of the schools as it may 
specify.* 

§ 106 No person elected to the office of school visitor 
or town school committee shall be employed as teacher in the 
town where he is school visitor or member of the town school 
committee. If any school visitor or member of the town school 
committee shall be employed, contrary to the provisions of this 
section, the office of school visitor or town school committee to 
which he was elected shall become vacant. 

§ 107 The selection of all books and apparatus under 
§ 200 shall be made or approved by the board of school visitors, 
or the town school committee, which shall also prescribe the 
rules for their management, use, and safe-keeping. The books 
and apparatus purchased under the provisions of § 201 shall 
remain the property of the town and under the care and control 
of the library committee. 

§ 108 The board of school visitors or the town school 
committee, as the case may be, shall make returns, signed by the 
chairman and secretary, of the number of persons over four and 

^ General certificate of teacher is sufficient in any district of the town where 
issued 36 Conn 282 

2 Teacher may be discharged by the district, and in absence of action by the 
district may be discharged by the committee 33 Conn 304 

If improperly discharged by the committee the district may compel rein- 
statement 33 Conn 305 306 

Previous to enactment of § 172 a teacher might be employed by the commit- 
tee for a period extending beyond committee's term of office. 36 Conn 282 

Is not a public officer in ordinary sense of word ; his wages are subject to 
attachment 53 Conn 509 

Status of teacher as to district lb 

3 § 172 4 ^ 40 



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under sixteen years of age in their respective towns/ to the Report to eomp- 

comptroller, and shall in said returns specify how many of those t^o"^^ 

thus returned attended some school, public or private, within 

the previous calendar year, and how many did not attend 

any school within that year; how many of those who attended 

no school were under five years of age, how many were over 

five and under seven, how many were over seven and under 

fourteen, and how many were over fourteen and under sixteen 

years of age, and the chairman and secretary shall draw orders 

on him for the public money due the town as prescribed in 

chapter xvi.^ No town shall receive any money for schools 

from the state treasury unless the returns herein required are 

made.^ 

§ 109 After the close of each term of school in any dis- asseaies 
trict the school visitors shall sfive to the selectmen a certificate isse isto i879 

, , 1 , 1 f 1 , -11 Kev 1888 §2145 

Stating whether each school has been kept m all respects ac- cgrtigcateto 
cording to law or not ; and shall, in connection with the select- selectmen 
men, perform the duties required by the provisions of chapter 
xvi, and make the apportionment required in the case of dis- 
tricts formed from parts of two or more towns, as prescribed in 
§ 226.* 

§ no The board of school visitors of each tow^n shall ossecmi 
annually, in the month of October, return to the secretary of the i^^r2148 
state board of education, the names and post-ofiice addresses of Report of names 

the district committees ; and within four weeks from the be- of district com- 
mittees ana 
ginning of each school term the board of school visitors or the teachers 

town school committee, as the case may be, shall return the 
name and post-office address of each teacher employed in the 
public schools within their respective towns. 

§ III No board of school visitors, town school committee, assecfieo 
or board of education of any district shall change any text- if^.J^-^oJiS 
books used in the public schools except by a two-thirds vote cT^anc^eof teit- 
of all the members of the board or committee, notice of such ^^^^ 
intended change having been previously given at a meeting of 
said board or committee held at least one week previous to the 
vote upon such change / but the board of education, the board 
of school visitors, or the town school committee, may, in ad- 
dition to the text-books prescribed according to the provisions 
of § 97, prescribe the use of other books as text-books in read- 
ing; provided, such additional series are purchased by the 
district or town and the use thereof furnished free to the 
scholars. 

' §§ 202 203 204 205 Blanks for this purpose are distributed by the comp- 
troller 

s§207 2 §§219 228 *§45 



34 



G Ssec 2161 
1878 1882 
Kev 1888 §2137 
1899 ch 54 §1 

Vaccination of 
school children 



G Ssec 2172 

1872 
Rev 1888 §2149 
Preservation of 
books and 
records 

G S sec 2173 

1872 
Rev 1888 §2151 
Reports and re- 
turns, how 
sworn to 



§ 112 The board of school visitors, town school commit- 
tee, or board of education, may require every child to be vac- 
cinated before being permitted to attend a public school under 
its jurisdiction. If the parents or guardians of any children 
are unable to pay for such vaccination, the expense thereof 
shall, on the recommendation of said board or committee, be 
paid by the town. Said board or committee may exclude from 
any school under its supervision all children under five years of 
age whenever in its judgment the interest of such school will be 
thereby promoted.^ 

§ 113 All school officers shall preserve all books and 
documents of permanent value pertaining to schools which 
come into their hands by virtue of their offices, and transmit 
them to their successors. 

§ 114 All reports or returns required to be made by a 
school officer on oath or affirmation may be affirmed or sworn 
to before any school visitor, member of a town school com- 
mittee, or member of a board of education. 



1903 ch 195 §1 



School officei*8 
may choose su- 
perintendent by 
majority vote 



1903 ch 195 §2 



Organization of 
supervision dis- 
trict 



Supervision dis- 
trict committee 



Chapter IX 
Supervision of Schools 

§ 115 The town school committee or board of edu- 
tion or board of school visitors of any town may choose by 
ballot a superintendent^ of schools and may fix the salary^ and 
prescribe the duties of said superintendent, which shall always 
include the duties of acting visitor as now prescribed by law. 
A majority vote of all the members of the committee or board 
shall be necessary to an election. 

§ 116 Two or more towns together employing not less 
than twenty-five nor more than fifty teachers may unite, by 
vote of the town school committee, board of school visitors, or 
board of education, as the case may be, for the purpose of em- 
ploying a superintendent of schools, and towns so united shall 
form a supervision district. The town school committee, board 
of school visitors, or board of education of towns so united 
are hereby authorized to make all arrangements, agreements, 
and regulations necessary to the organization and maintenance 
of a supervision district. Said school officers of each of the 
towns constituting a separate district shall appoint one of their 
number as a member of a supervision committee, and the com- 

^ Statute held to be constitutional and a reasonable exercise of the police 
power 65 Conn 183 
2 § 102 3 § 103 



35 

mittee so appointed shall be a joint committee on behalf of the 

several towns constituting the supervision district. Each town 

shall be entitled to one vote in said joint committee, and said 

joint committee may employ a superintendent, fix and apportion 

the salary of said superintendent, and manage the affairs of said District con 

district. Every district organized under the provisions of this y^a^rs^*^^^ 

section shall continue three years, and at the end of three years dissolution 

any town may dissolve a district by withdrawal. Notice of 

the intent to withdraw shall be given in writing to the other 

towns of the district at least three months before the termina- 

ion of the three-year period. 

§ 117 The secretary of each town school committee, 1903 ch 195 §3 
board of school visitors, or board of education taking advantage 
of § 116 shall, annually, on or before the fourteenth day of July, 
certify to the state board of education the amount actually paid 
as salary to the superintendent for the current school year, and, salary of su- 
whenever a superintendent has been employed according to the p^"^^*'^ ^^ 
provisions of § 116, the comptroller shall, upon application of 
the state board of education, draw an order on the treasurer on 
behalf of said town for one-half the sum certified ; provided, that state grant 
not more than eight hundred dollars be paid by the state to any 
supervision district for one year, and provided that no super- 
vision district shall receive more from the state than the district 
itself has paid to the superintendent. 

§ 118 No person shall be eligible for appointment under 1903 eh 195 §4] 
§ IIS who has not had at least five years' successful experience who eligible as 

. . Bupenntendenti 

as a teacher or supermtendent, or who does not hold a certifi- 
cate of approval by the state board of education. 

§ 119 The town school committee or board of school i903ichi95§5 
visitors or board of education of any town employing: not more state board of 

^1 , 1 .. , iir-i • education may 

than ten teachers may petition the state board of education, appoint agent 
or such town may by vote request the state board of educa- "P'^^p^^^^^ 
tion, and the state board of education, when so petitioned or 
requested, is hereby authorized to appoint an agent who shall 
discharge the duties of superintendent^ and who shall be quali- 
fied as provided in § 118. Any town for which a superin- 
tendent is appointed under the provisions of this section shall 
pay one-quarter of the salary of said superintendent and the 
state shall pay three-quarters, and the amount paid by the state state grant 
shall be paid in the manner provided in § 117. 

1 § 102 



36 

Chapter X 
School Districts 

General Statutes, Chapter 135, page 570 



GSsecmu § 120 In the absence of a special appointment the corn- 

Rev 1888 §2152 mittee of a school district shall be the agent ex officio of said 

District com- j • , • - 
mittee to be ex district. 

^^s^eT^m § 121 ^Each town shall have power to form, unite, alter, 

Rev^S?2^i53 and dissolve school districts and parts of school districts 

FoJmatimi^and within its Hmits ; and two or more towns may form school dis- 

schooi drstricts tricts of adjoining portions of their respective towns. ^ 

G''S«ecfi76 § 122 Whenever a school district is formed from parts 

Rev 1888 §2154 of two or more towns, either of said towns may divide such dis- 

1893 ch 63 . , . . , * . 1 • . • 1 . -.1 J 

1897 ch 24 §2 trict by unitmsf the portions Ivmef m said town with any ad- 

Division of die- ... ,. ^ . °^i T „ ' 

tricts formed of joining district therein.^ 

^QS^ll'llT^ § 123 Every school district shall be a body corporate,* 

RevS §fi55 ^^^ shall have power to sue and be sued,^ to purchase, re- 

Powers of school ccivc, hold, and convey real and personal property for school 
purposes ; 

To build, purchase, hire, and repair schoolhouses, and sup- 
ply them with fuel, furniture, and other appendages and accom- 
modations f 

To establish schools of different grades '^ 



districts 



^ Name of school district fixed by the inhabitants 13 Conn 234 

^ School districts, for educational purposes, are component parts of towns or 
societies 15 Conn 335 

Power of town, how affected by appeal to and decree by the superior court 
54 Conn 52 ; 55 Conn 245 246 

Limits of school district formed by annexation may be shown otherwise 
than by record evidence 54 Conn 76 77 

2 Procedure §126 

^ Every inhabitant of a school district is a party to a suit brought against it 
and his property may be taken on an execution issued against it 10 Conn 395 
See 26 Conn 527 

^ Districts may sue by the name by which they are generally known 13 
Conn 227 

"What is sufficient warning of meeting of school district 13 Conn 234 

The records of a school district are evidence of its votes in a suit to which 
it is a party 13 Conn 235 

A debt owed by a school district may be taken by foreign attachment 53 
Conn 509 Status of teachers as to district defined lb 

® The character and cost of school buildings, within broad limits, is left to 
the school district Courts will not interfere with this discretion except in clear 
cases of abuse 25 Conn 227 ; 63 Conn 131 Extent of discretionary power of 
school district illustrated 25 Conn 227 228 

Schoolhouse may not be used for religious purposes against objection of 
taxpayer, and injunction will lie against such use 27 Conn 503-505 

District committee must obey the vote of the district as to rooms and 
teachers ; the committee's authority is contingent on the district failing to act 
33 Conn 304 

A schoolhouse is not an outhouse within the meaning of the statute relat- 
ing to burglarious entrance of outhouse 10 Conn 144 145 

' A school district has all necessary power to establish and maintain a 
school within its limits 33 Conn 304 



37 

To purchase globes, maps, blackboards, and other school 
apparatus ; 

To establish and maintain a school library;^ 

To employ teachers, except for such time as the town may 
direct the school visitors to employ the teachers f 

And shall pay the wages of such teachers as are employed by 
the district committee in conformity to law f 

To lay taxes and borrow money for all the foregoing pur- 
poses ;^ 

And to make all lawful agreements and regulations for es- 
tablishing and conducting schools, not inconsistent with the 
regulations of the town having jurisdiction of the schools in 
such district.^ 

§ 124 The name, number, and limits of every school dis- QSsecim 
trict shall be entered on its records, and on the records of the ^ }^\^^^a 

Kev looo s«lOD 
town or towns to which it belongfS. Kecordofname 

o 1 T ri 11 1 1 • r 1 • • ^^^ bounds 

§ 125 When the boundary lines of any district are not ossecniQ 
clearly settled and defined the selectmen of the town in which ^ .1849 

• • • 1 1 11 1 A ^ n ^ i i 11 i Rev 1888 §2157 

it IS Situated shall settle and denne the same ; they shall also gettiement of 
settle and define the boundary lines of any new district ; when boundary lines 
said selectmen cannot agree in settling and defining said lines, 
the town to which said district belongs may appoint three in- 
different persons for that purpose, who shall have the same 
authority therein as is herein conferred upon said selectmen; 
and when parts of such districts lie in two or more towns, the 
selectmen of the towns in which any part is situated, or, in 
■case of disagreement, three indifferent persons appointed by a 
judge of the superior court on application by either town and 
notice to the other, shall settle and define the boundary lines 
of such part. 

§ 126 When it is proposed to form, alter, unite, or dissolve fli^^^cwso 
any school district or districts, notice that such change is pro- jjeviffisiss 
posed shall be posted on the schoolhouse in each school district i895 ch 130 
to be affected, or, if there be no schoolhouse in any of such -^osaito after" 
school districts, at the usual place for posting warnings for school district 
meetings of such districts, and printed in a newspaper or news- 

' Ch XV page 59 ^ gg 40 42 197 ^ §§ 172 196 197 198 

* A vote laying a tax is sufficiently definite if it is reasonably clear that the 
»tax was imposed for a legitimate purpose 12 Conn 437-439 

School districts are limited in power to raise and expend money for the sole 
purposes set forth in the statute 60 Conn 234 235 

^ The votes and proceedings of school districts, if within their jurisdiction, 
will be liberally construed 15 Conn 332 454 

^ §49 If proper officer fails to make record he can be compelled to do it 
by writ of mandamus, but the omission of it does not affect the legal existence 
of the district 52 Conn 44 



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G S sec 2181 

1865 
Rev 1888 §2159 

Appeals by dis- 
tricts aggrieved 



GS sec 2182 
1865 1872 
Rev 1888 §2160 

Proceedings on 
appeal 



GS sec 2183 

1856 
Rev 1888 §2161 
1893 ch 123 



papers published in the town to which such districts or any one 
of them may belong, if any there be ; and a copy of such notice- 
shall be left with the clerk of each of said districts at least 
fifteen days before the town is called to act upon the propo- 
sition.^ 

§ 127 When application shall be made to a town to form,, 
alter, or dissolve a school district, or to unite two or more 
school districts, any district aggrieved by the action or neglect 
of action of the town may appeal from such action or neglect 
of action to the superior court in the county in which such 
town is situated, within one year next after such action or 
neglect, by an application containing a brief statement, that 
such an appeal is taken, by whom, and from what, signed by 
the agent of the appellant ; to which shall be annexed a citation 
signed by proper authority, notifying the appellees to appear 
at the court to which such appeal is taken. Service thereof 
shall be made by some proper officer by leaving a true and at- 
tested copy of such appeal and citation with the town clerk, and 
with the clerk or one of the district committee of ferny other 
district interested, at least twelve days before the session of 
the court.^ 

§ 128 Said court shall have the same powers to act upon 
said application that said town had, and may appoint a com- 
mittee to report the facts and its opinion thereon and the final 
decree of the court shall be recorded in the records of said' 
town ; and said court may allow and tax costs at its discretion, 
including fees for surveys, copies, and recording decree. Un- 
less the town shall thereafter abolish all the school districts and 
parts of districts within its limits no alteration of the lines fixed 
by such decree shall be made, except by the superior court of 
such county ; which shall have original jurisdiction of an appli- 
cation for the purpose made by any district interested.^ 

§ 129 When any districts shall be consolidated the new 
district shall own all the property of the several districts ; and 

^ Object of statute is to give more extended notice than by the ordinary 
warning 52 Conn 46 Form of notice not essential ; not necessary to state the 
business in detail 52 Conn 46 ; 55 Conn 246 The provisions c/e notice do not 
apply to proposed vote of a town to assume control of schools 73 Conn 170 

'^ Legal existence and limits of district may be shown by prescription 54 
Conn 7Q The court is not limited in its action to allowance or disallowance of 
application ; it may allow application in part 55 Conn 246 

^ Decree of court annulling action of the town is not such a fixing of lines- 
as would preclude further action by the town 54 Conn 52 

The statute should be liberally construed 54 Conn 53 

Court is not limited to affiming or reversing action of the town ; the appli- 
cation may be allowed in part 55 C 246 

Authority of court to act is limited only by the preliminary notice and the- 
warning of the town meeting Id 



39 

when a district shall be divided its property, or the income and Disposition of 
proceeds thereof, shall be distributed among the several parts J[te?aUon°of 
in proportion to the number of persons between four and six- ^^^^^^^ 
teen years of age in each. 

§ 130 Whenever any school district has been or shall ossecsisu 
hereafter be divided into two or more districts, and the said Revi8l^§2i62 
districts cannot agree upon the distribution of the property and i893 ch 12:3 §1 
assets of said districts between the districts, or cannot agree prope?^*^ind^^*' 
upon the proportion that each district shall pay of the debts of ^^^^^ 
the district owing at the time of the division, either of said dis- 
tricts may bring its complaint to the superior court in the 
county in which either of said districts is located, praying for 
such relief as it claims it is entitled to. 

§ 131 Such complaint shall state the facts upon which GSsec^iss 
the plaintiff claims relief, and shall be served upon the re- i<S2i62 
spondent district as in civil actions, and said court may dis- i893chi23§2 
tribute the propertv and assets between the districts or set the Powers of 

^ ^ " superior court 

entire property and assets to one district as it shall find for the 
best interests of the district ; and in case the property and assets 
are set to one of said districts, shall find and decree the sum of 
money that such district so receiving said property shall pay 
to the other district. Said court shall find and decree the pro- 
portion that each district shall pay of the debts and liabilities 
outstanding at the time of the division. 

§ 132 All associations under the act of 1841, allowing GSsecnse 
any two or more adjoining school districts to associate to- jjevS^cs 
gether and form a union district, entered into before the repeal Associations 
of said act, shall continue to be managed according to the acfSnisS^^'^ 
provisions of said act, unless the town shall abolish or con- 
solidate all the school districts within its limits.^ 

§ 133 The schools in every school district formed from gs sec 2181 
parts of two or more towns shall be under the charge and Eevi888§2i64 
direction of the town in which the schoolhouse is situated, un- control of dis- 

' tncts formed 

less the towns shall otherwise ae^ree.^ from parts of 

tOWTlR 

§ 134 Every school district shall hold an annual meeting ossecnss 

in the month of June, for the choice of officers, and for the ^^JsTfiWe^ 

transaction of any other business relating to schools, and shall Revi888§2i65 

hold a special meeting when the same shall be duly called.^ special meet- 
ings 

* Ch xiii page 50 ^ ^^ jog 226 

3 §§ 141 170 Meeting should be opened within a reasonable time after the 
hour specified ; what is such reasonable time 13 Conn 234 Meeting presumed 
to have been legally held, pursuant to the warning Id 

Record of meeting is admissible to show vote of district 13 Conn 235 ; 
but see 44 Conn 160 



40 



Q 8 sec 2189 

1656 
Rev 1888 §3166 

District meet- 
ings, where held 



G S sec 2190 
1823 1851 1856 

1885 
Rev 1888 §2167 

Notice of dis- 
trict meetings 



S sec 2191 
1856 1879 1880 

' 1881 
Rev 1888 §2168 

See §1631 
Legal voters of 
school district 
G Ssec 2192 

1884 
Rev 1888 §2169 

What paupers 
may vote in 
school meetings 



OS sec 2193 
1877 1879 1880 

1881 

Rev 1888 §2170 

See §1631 

Conductof meet- 
ing; registry list 



§ 135 District meetings shall be held at the district school- 
house; but if there be no suitable schoolhouse the committee, 
if there be one, otherwise the clerk, and if there be no com- 
mittee or clerk the selectmen of the town to which said district 
belongs, shall determine the place of meeting, which shall in 
all cases be within the district. 

§ 136 ^Notice of the time, place, and object of every meet- 
ing of the district shall be given at least five days previous to 
holding it, including the day the notice is given but not includ- 
ing the day of holding said meeting. The committee, or, if 
there be no such committee, the clerk, or, if there be no com- 
mittee or clerk, the selectmen of the town, shall give notice of 
a district meeting, either by publishing the same in a newspaper 
printed in the district, or by posting a notice on the school- 
house or on the signpost in the district, or in some other mode 
previously designated by the district ; but if there be no such 
newspaper, schoolhouse, or signpost, or other mode so desig- 
nated, the selectmen of the town to which said district belongs 
shall determine how the notice shall be given. The person or 
persons giving such notice shall, on the day of giving it, leave 
a duplicate of it with the clerk, if any, of the district, if not, 
with the selectmen to be delivered to the clerk when appointed, 
who shall preserve it on file. 

§ 137 The legal voters of a school district shall consist 
only of the legal voters of the town or towns in which said 
district is situated who have resided in said school district for 
the period of four months next preceding. 

§ 138 No inmate of the almshouse of any town, other 
than the officers and employees of the town residing therein, 
shall vote at any school meeting of the district wherein such 
almshouse is situated, unless a resident of such district at the 
time of his becoming such inmate. 

§ 139 In every school district whose limits are the same 
as the limits of the town in which it is situated the town registry 
list shall be the registry list for school purposes,^ and in every 
other school district enumerating four hundred or more chil- 
dren, as returned to the comptroller, the registrars of voters 
of the town in which the schoolhouse of said district is situated 
shall have the same powers in reference to voting lists, appoint- 

^ A warning which fairly sets forth the purposes of the meeting, /le/d suffi- 
cient 13 Conn 234 ; 15 Conn 332 ; 52 Conn 46 ; 55 Conn 246 

Posting warning on one signpost in the district /le/d sufficient 15 Conn 332 
What notice would be insufficient 44 Conn 159; 53 Conn 578; 60 Conn 168 
Where original vote was illegal a vote not to rescind at a later meeting 
does not validate original vote 53 Conn 579 ; but see 52 Conn 49 
'§174 



41 

ing moderators and box tenders of school district meetings, as 
they now have in the election of town, city, or ward officers ; 
and said registrars of voters shall, upon the written request of 
twenty or more legal voters of said school district deposited 
with either of said registrars of voters at least twenty days be- 
fore the annual meeting of said district, prepare and complete 
a correct list of all the legal voters of said school district, and 
lodge the same with the clerk of said district at least five days 
before said annual meeting; and in every other school district 
the clerk of said district shall, upon the written request of 
twenty or more legal voters of such district, lodged with said 
clerk at least twenty days before the annual meeting of said 
district, prepare the check list of the legal voters of said dis- 
trict, to be used at any meeting for the election of officers in 
said district, or for the taking of any vote by ballot which may 
be requested by one-third of the legal voters present at any 
meeting of the school district; said clerk shall add to said list 
the name of any legal voter omitted, and erase therefrom the 
name of any person improperly entered thereon, and for this 
purpose he shall have all the powders within said district which 
the registrars of voters have in their respective towns. 

§ 140 Whenever one-third of the legal voters present at 1881 

any meeting of a school district havinsr such resfistration shall ^^^^^^§2^'^ 

. .1 ^ . . .• 1-1 Vote by ballot, 

request that any vote or votes upon any question pendmg be- how ordered and 
fore such meeting shall be taken by ballot and check list of the ^ ^^ 
legal voters of said district the chairman of such meeting shall 
cause said vote or votes to be so taken, and if said vote or votes 
cannot be then and there conveniently and properly taken, he 
shall, upon the like request of said one-third of the legal voters 
present, adjourn said meeting to the usual polling place or 
places in said district, if there be any, and, if there be none, 
then to the most suitable and convenient place or places in said 
district, at such time within one wxek thereafter as he may 
designate, when and where said vote or votes shall be taken be- 
tween the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and five o'clock 
in the afternoon, and the result shall be ascertained and de- 
clared by said chairman, and recorded by the clerk upon the 
records of said district. 

§ 141 Upon the written request of twenty or more legal os»ecn9s 
voters of any school district having such registration to the jj^j^Lyo 
committee to call a special meeting to vote by ballot and check g j^j ^^^ 
list upon any resolutions appended to such request, said com- i^^gs 
mittee shall call such meeting within three weeks thereafter, 
at some suitable time and place in such district, to be particu- 
larly stated in the call, when and where said vote or votes shall 



GSsecnsu 



42 

be taken, and the result ascertained, declared, and recorded in 
the manner provided in § 140. Upon like request, the com- 
mittee of any school district having such registration shall 
cause all elections of officers of such district to be had by ballot 
and check list. 
OS sec 2196 § ^42 The compensation of each of said registrars of 

1881^ ^ voters, or of said district clerks for preparing said lists, shall 
" ' be the same per diem as that paid by the town in which said 

Compensation .... . . . . 

for preparing district is situatcd to said registrars of voters, for preparing 
the voting lists used at state, town, city, or ward elections, and 
shall be paid by the treasurer of the school district for which 
such list is prepared. 

OS sec 2197 § ^43 Every meeting may choose its own moderator,^ and 

1856. ^ may adjourn^ from time to time to meet at the same or some 

Illegal voting in Other placc in the district. Every person who shall vote il- 

district meeting legally in any school district meeting shall be fined not more 
than thirty dollars.^ 

OS sec 2198 § 144 Each school district, unless otherwise provided by 

1856 ^ law, shall choose by ballot, at the annual meeting,* a committee^ 

1889 ch 47 §1 of not more than three persons, a clerk, who shall be sworn,^ 

1889 ch 125 , 1, , , , 1, , , , , . . 

1893 ch 201 a treasurer, and a collector,^ who shall hold their respective 
^ ''^. , offices for the period of one year from the fifteenth dav of July 

Committee and ^ ^ mi i-/^ i q i 

other officers of next Succeeding, and vmtil others are chosen and qualified , and 
any resident of the district so chosen who shall refuse or neglect 
to perform the duties of the office, shall pay five dollars to said 
district ; but any new district may at its first or at any subse- 
quent meeting, called by the selectmen of the town, choose its 
officers who shall hold office till the annual meeting of such 
district. The members of the district committee shall be resi- 
dents of the district ; but the other offices may be filled by any 
inhabitants of the town to which said district belongs. 
o s sec 2199 § 145 Any school district having by its last enumeration 

Rev 1^^176 ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^" ^^^ hundred children between four and sixteen 

^ Majority of ballots cast is requisite for election of any of the officers 24 
Conn 34 i^ 146 

^ An adjourned meeting may hold an election of officers Id 

^§ 137 /§ 134 ' Chxiipage49 

^ Form of oath You solemnly swear that you will faithfully discharge 
according to law your duties as clerk of the district to the best of your ability ; 
so help you God Gen Stat ^ 4795 

The clerk need not take the oath of office immediately after his election, or 
before taking the minutes of the proceedings of a district meeting ; provided he 
takes it before he performs any regular official act, such as making or sanc- 
tioning a formal record 15 Conn 333 What are the official acts of the 
clerk lb 

^ Gen Stat § 2381 

^ Former officer holds over only until a legal election of his successor 
42 Conn 35 



43 

years of age, may, at any annual meeting, due notice being in- committee in 
serted in the call therefor, order that its committee shall consist uvo'^hu^dSd"^ 
of three persons chosen by ballot, divided into three classes cMidren 
holding office for one, two, and three years, and that annually 
thereafter one member shall be chosen by ballot, to hold office 
for three years. Should a vacancy occur the remaining mem- 
bers of the committee may fill it until the next annual district 
meeting, when all vacancies shall be filled. Whenever a district 
has appointed its committee as herein provided such district 
may, at any special meeting called for the purpose, vote that it 
will no longer so appoint its committee ; thereupon the terms of 
office of all the members of its committee shall end at its next 
annual meeting and thereafter its committee shall be appointed 
according to the provisions of § 144. G s sec 2200 

§ 146 In the election of officers of a school district a Rev 1888 §21^7 
majority^ of the votes cast shall be required to elect, unless eiect""^^^" 
otherwise expresslv provided. qs tec 2201 

§ 147 The clerk of every school district shall, within Rev I888 §2178 
thirty days after the election of officers in such district, for- 
ward to the secretary of the board of school visitors of the 
town wherein said school district is located, a certified list of certificate of 
the officers elected at such meeting, together with the post- officers 
office address of each. If a district is situated partly in two 
or more towns such list shall be sent to the secretary of the 
board of school visitors of each of said towns. Every clerk 
who shall fail to comply with any provision of this section shall 
be fined not more than ten dollars. gs sec 2202 

§ .148 If a district, at the time for the annual meeting, J^^%.^a 
shall fail to appomt all, or any, of its officers, or it a vacancy vacancies, how 
shall occur, the school visitors of the town to which such dis- ^^^^ 
trict belongs shall make such appointment and fill such vacancy ; 
and shall lodge the names of the officers, so appointed, with the 
district clerk. This section shall not apply to vacancies occur- 
ring under the provisions of § 145. os sec 220s 

§ 149 The clerk,^ treasurer,^ and collector* of each school Revi88?§2i80 
district shall exercise the same powers and perform the same Duties of 
duties, in their respective districts*, as the clerks, treasurers, °^^^^® 
and collectors of towns do in their respective towns. GS8ec22ou 

§ 150 Any district may require the treasurer and col- cj^goisi 
lector respectively to give bonds to the district, to the approval 

^ A plurality vote taken by ballot is insufficient to elect the committee of a 
school district even if they be afterward declared elected by a viva voce major 
vote 42 Conn 34 

' Gen Stat I 1847 ^ Gen Stat § 1874 * Gen Stat § 2381 



44 



Bonds may be 
required 

essecnos 

1878 
Rev 1888 §2182 

Records and 
papers to be 
open to inspec- 
tion 



O S sec 2206 

1872. 
Rev 1888 §2183 

Neglect of dis- 
trict to open ' 
Bcbool 



O S sec 2207 

1870 
Rev 1888 §2184 
Every district 
must have a 
Bchoolhouse 
Q S sec 2208 

1856 
Rev 1888 §2185 
Erection of 
Bchoolhouse 



G S sec 2209 
1794 1868 1874 

1878 
Rev 1888 §2186 

Site of school- 
house how fixed 



of the district committee, for the faithful discharge of the 
duties of their respective offices, before assuming such duties. 

§ 151 All records and papers relating to or affecting the 
interest of any school district shall at all times be open to the 
inspection and examination of any person liable to pay taxes 
in said district. Every clerk of a school district wilfully con- 
cealing, refusing, or neglecting to furnish reasonable access to 
any such records or papers, or giving false or incorrect informa- 
tion as to the same, shall be fined not more than twenty-five 
dollars.^ 

§ 152 In case of the refusal or neglect by a district to em- 
ploy a teacher and keep open a school during the usual portion 
of the year the school visitors of the town having jurisdiction 
over such district may employ teachers, and keep open a public 
school in the schoolhouse of said district for the period for 
which the town would be obliged during that school year to 
maintain a school in such district f but the whole expense of a 
school thus opened shall be paid by the town on the order of the 
selectmen, upon their receiving a certificate of the amount 
thereof from the school visitors ; and, in any such case, the 
town shall be entitled to receive the same payments from the 
state as if such school had been kept open by such district in the 
usual manner. 

§ 153 No district shall be entitled to receive any money 
from the state, or town, unless it has a schoolhouse and out- 
buildings, satisfactory to the board of school visitors.^ 

§ 154 No new district schoolhouse shall be built except 
according to a plan approved by the board of school visitors 
and by the building committee of such district ; nor at an ex- 
pense exceeding the sum which the district may appropriate 
therefor. 

§ 155 Any school district, by a vote of two-thirds of those 
present and voting at a legally warned meeting of the district, 
may fix or change the site of a schoolhouse ; but if such two- 
thirds vote cannot be obtained in favor of any site, the school 
visitors of any town adjoining the town or either of the towns 
in which such district is, on application of the district, shall, 
after conferring with the school visitors of the town or towns 
in which such district is situated, fix the site, and make return 
to the town clerk of the town in which such site is located ; and 



^ The records of a school district are legal evidence of its proceedings in a 
suit to which it is a party 13 Conn 235 

^ School visitors shall visit and inspect schoolhouses and out-buildings twice 
in each term §101 



45 

shall receive a reasonable compensation for their services from 
said district. 

§ 156 Persons not residing in a school district may attend ossecmo 
the public schools therein, if the consent of the committee of 1872 

, ,. . I r 1 11.- r , ^ ^ ■, RcV 1888 §2191 

such district and of the school visitors of the town be first ob- ;p^onre8ident 
tained, but not otherwise. pupils 

§ 157 Any school district or town may, by a vote of two- GSsecsm 
thirds of those present at any les^al meetinsf, allow its school- ^ J^L.^ 

. .\ if. r 1 1 Revl888§2192 

house or schoolhouses, when not in use for school purposes, schooihouse 
to be used for any other purpose.^ Sr^^rpo^e?' 

§ 158 Any school district may take land which has been gssecuni 
fixed upon as a site, or addition to a site, of a public school- ^ ^^.^^Hn'^,^ 

. . ^ Kev 1888 §2187 

house, and which is necessary for such purpose or for out- school district 
building's or convenient accommodations for its schools, upon may take land 

° , . ^ for schooihouse 

paying to the owner just compensation. 

§ 159 If such school district cannot agree with the owner os tecum 
upon the amount of such compensation, it may prefer its peti- i856i872 

, . . . . ^ . ^ . ^ . .. Rev 1888 §2188 

tion to the superior court m the county m which the land lies, p^oceedin sto 
or, if said court is not in session, to either judge thereof, pray- condemn land 
ing that such compensation may be determined ; which shall be 
accompanied by a summons, signed by competent authority, 
notifying the owner of the land to be taken, and all persons in- 
terested therein, to appear before the said court or judge, and 
shall be served as a writ of summons in civil actions ; and, upon 
said petition, said court or judge shall appoint a committee of 
three disinterested men, who, after being sworn, and giving 
reasonable notice to the parties, shall examine the land proposed 
to be taken, and if they approve the site, they shall ascertain 
its value, and assess such sum in favor of the owner as will 
justly compensate him therefor ; but if they do not approve said 
site, they may fix another site on land of the same owner, and 
proceed as aforesaid, and report their doings to said court or 
judge ; and their report may be rejected for any irregular or 
improper conduct in the performance of their duties. 

§ 160 If the report be rejected, the court or judge shall GSsecuiis 
appoint another committee, who shall proceed in the same Revi^^§2i89 
manner as the first committee were required to proceed ; but if Effect of accept- 
it be accepted by said court or judge, such acceptance shall have ^^^e of report 
the effect of a judgment in favor of the owner of the land 
against the petitioner, for the amount of the assessment made 
by the committee, and execution may be issued therefor; and 

' A district cannot without a two-thirds vote order any term of the school 
to be kept elsewhere than in the regular schooihouse 28 Conn 332 As to 
power of the district in this respect prior to enactment of this statute in 1872, 
see 27 Conn 503 507 



46 

such court or judge may make any order necessary for the pro- 
tection of the rights of all persons interested in the land taken ; 
but the land shall not be used or inclosed by the district, until 
the amount of said judgment shall be paid to the party to whom 
it is due, or deposited for his use with the county treasurer. 
Said district shall pay the committee a reasonable compensation 
for their services, to be taxed by said court or judge. 
GSsecuiik § i6i No school district, society, city, or town shall take 

1871 for school purposes the land of any ecclesiastical society, upon 

1895 ch 27 any part of which a church building has already been erected, 
teryTandnouo' without the couscut of such ccclcsiastical society, or any land 
schooi^^ ^°^ devoted to or used for cemetery or burial purposes. 

Chapter XI 
School District Taxes^ 

General Statutes, Chapter 146, page 626 

QSsec2hi5 § 162- All taxes imposed by any school district shall be 

1^6 ■^1883^^^^ levied on the real estate situated therein, and the ratable per- 
Rev 1888 §3908 sonal property and polls of those persons who belonged to said 
taxe^s? levied on district at the time of laying such tax, which polls shall be set 
^^^ in the list at one hundred dollars each, and upon any manufac- 

turing or mechanical business, subject to taxation, which is lo- 
cated or carried on in said district, not including therein the 
value of any real estate situated out of the district, and also upon 
any mercantile business carried on in said district by any per- 
son or persons who do not reside in the town in which said school 
district is situated ; and neither the business so taxed nor any 
real estate in said district shall be taxed in any other district. 
GSsecshie § 163 When any school district having within its bound- 

Rev IBS'* §3909 ^rics any town almshouse and farm, shall impose any tax for 
Townpoorhouse the purposc of building or repairing its schoolhouse, said real 
fo?8chooihouse^ estate owned by said town shall not be exempt from such taxa- 
tion. 
G8sec2uij § 164^ When real estate in any district is so entered in the 

Rev 1888 §3910 Hst of the towu in common with other real estate situated out 
Land partly in of Said district that there is no distinct and separate value put 
district j^y ^j^g assessors upon the part lying in said district, one or more 

of the assessors of the town in which said property is situated 

^ For exemptions see Gen Stat § 2315 

^ Real estate in any district taxable there whatever owner's residence 4 
D 376 ; II Conn 479 

Votes imposing school taxes inartificially drawn held valid 15 Conn 331 
Rate bill not invalid because it did not show on what list laid 15 Conn 447 
Personal property of deceased person's estate in settlement taxable in dis- 
trict of his domicile at death 38 Conn 443 

2 Doings of assessors under this section upheld and construed 15 Conn 447 



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shall, on application of said district, value said part lying in Assessment of 
said district and return a list of the same to the clerk of said ^" ^° 
district ; and notice of such valuation, and of the meeting of the 
assessors and selectmen in § 165 mentioned, shall be given by 
the district committee in the same way as a notice for district 
meetings. 

§ 165 At the end of ten days after such return of said list, gs sec 21,18 
the assessors and selectmen of the town shall meet in such Revi888§39n 
place as said committee shall designate in such notice, and shall 
have the same power, in relation to such list, that the board of 
relief has in relation to town lists ; and no deduction or abate- Board of relief 
ment shall be made on account of the indebtedness of the owner Deductions for 
of any real estate so taxed, unless both the debtor and the ™ ^ ^ ^^^^ 
creditor belong to said district ; and such list, when perfected 
by said assessors and selectmen, shall be lodged with the town 
clerk ; and said valuation shall be the rule of taxation for said 
real estate by said district for the year ensuing ; and said assess- 
ors shall be paid by said district a reasonable compensation 
for their services. 

§ 166 When any real estate in any district has not been GSsec^uio 
put into the town list, or when any polls in any district, liable Rev 18^^912 
to taxation, have not been entered in said list, one or more of Listing of real 
the assessors of the town in which such omission has occurred, oSed^from"^ 
on application of said district, shall value such real estate, and ^*^^°^i®*^ 
make a list of said polls, and add such property and polls to 
the list of the district. 

§ 167 When a district lays a tax on the town list last osseczuzo 
completed, and the title to any real estate has been in any way Rev 1^^913 
changed between the first day of October next preceding and Assessment of 
the time of laying said tax, one or more of the assessors of the Smnged^since 
town in which such change of property has occurred, on appli- towniist 
cation of such district, shall value said real estate in the name 
of the person owning it at the time of laying said tax, and de- 
duct the same from the list of the person in whose name it 
stood on the town list. 

§ 168 The assessors in performing the duties mentioned ossecei^i 
in §§ 166 and 167, shall proceed in the manner prescribed for Revi^^§39i4 
assessing real estate in § 164.^ Mode of such 

^ The following sections of the General Statutes apply to district taxes 

Gen Stat § 2361 Town, society, school district, and highway taxes shall 
be laid either on the assessment list of the town last before or on that next there- 
after completed, and be payable within one year after they are laid 

§ 2382 Every collector of taxes shall, before he receives any such warrant, 
give to the community of which he is collector, a bond with surety to the accept- 
ance of the selectmen, committee, or authority signing the rate bill, for the 
faithful discharge of his duties 

§ 2383 The tax book of any collector of town, city, borough, or school 
district taxes shall be at all reasonable times open to the inspection of any tax- 



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Chapter XII 
District Committees 

General Statutes, Chapter 137, page 581 

§ 169 In the absence of a special appointment the com- 
1860 mittee of a school district shall be the agent ex officio of said 

Revl888§2152 r1i'c-t-riVf 1 2 
District com- OlSincl. 
mittee to be 

ex oflacio agent payer, and to any auditor of public accounts of such town, city, borough, or 
school district Any collector who shall, after request, refuse to exhibit his tax 
book as aforesaid, shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars to such town, 
city, borough, or school district, and such penalty may be recovered by an action 
on such collector's official bond 

§ 2391 Every collector of town taxes shall, except as otherwise specially 
provided by law, publish a notice of the time and place at which he will receive 
them, by advertising in a newspaper published in the county at least once a 
week for three successive weeks next preceding the time in such notice appointed, 
and by posting on a signpost in his town at least three weeks before said time ; 
and collectors of other taxes shall appoint a time and place for receiving the 
same, and give reasonable notice thereof ; and if any tax laid by any town, city, 
borough, or school district, except as otherwise specially provided by law, shall 
remain unpaid for one month, after the same shall become due and payable, 
interest at the rate of nine per cent, shall be charged from the time when such 
tax becomes due until the same shall be paid, which shall be collectible as a part 
of said tax ; and said collectors shall keep an accurate and separate account of 
all such additions, and the time when the same may be received, and shall pay 
over the same as a part of said tax 

§ 2393 Taxes shall become due on the first day on which the collector 
thereof, according to the terms of the notice given by him, is ready to receive 
them 

§ 2407 All taxes, properly assessed, shall become a debt due from the 
person, persons, or corporation against whom they are respectively assessed, 
to the city, town, district, or community in whose favor they are assessed, and 
may be, in addition to the other remedies provided by law, recovered by any 
proper action, in the name of the community in whose favor they are assessed 
§ 2412 Warrants for the collection of taxes may be in the following form 
To A B, collector of taxes of the (here insert the name of the com- 
munity laying the tax), in the county of , greeting: By 

authority of the state of Connecticut, you are hereby commanded forth- 
with to collect of each person named in the annexed list his proportion of 
the same, as therein stated, being a tax laid by (name of community), 

on the day of , A D 19 And you are to pay the 

amount of said tax, less abatements, and less taxes the lien for which has 
been continued by certificate, to the treasurer of said (name of the com- 
munity), on or before the day of , A D 19-- And if 

any person fails to pay his proportion of said tax, upon demand, you are 
to levy upon his goods and chattels, and dispose of the same as the law 
directs ; and after satisfying said tax and the lawful charges, return the 
surplus, if any, to him ; and if such goods and chattels do not come to 
your knowledge, you are to levy upon his real estate, and sell enough 
thereof to pay his tax and the cost of levy, and give to the purchaser a 
deed thereof, or take the body of said person, and him commit unto the 
keeper of the jail of said county within the prison, who is hereby com- 
manded to receive and safely keep him until he shall pay said sum, together 
with your fees, or be discharged in due course of law Dated at 

this day of , A D 19 

A B, Justice of the Peace 
' Shall employ and dismiss teachers subject to direction of district § 105 
^ The committeeman of a school district is a public agent 22 Conn 383 



49 

§ 170 The committee of every district^ shall give due ossecggss 
notice of all meeting's of the district,- may call a special meet- ^ ^^ifSl-.o 
mg thereof at any time, and shall call one on the written re- Powers and 
quest of one-fifth or of ten of the legal voters in the district ^°^®® 
stating the object for which a meeting is desired, to be held 
within fifteen days after such request is presented, and for any 
failure so to comply with such request they shall be fined not 
more than thirty dollars. 

They shall provide suitable schoolrooms," and furnish the 
same with fuel properly prepared ; 

Visit the schools, by one or more of their number, twice at 
least during each term ; 

Shall, when the scholars are not properly suppHed with 
books, and their parents are too poor to furnish them, provide 
the same, the cost thereof to be included in the incidental ex- 
penses of the term ;* 

Shall suspend, or expel from school for the term, or for any 
part thereof, all pupils found guilty, on full hearing, of in- 
corrigibly bad conduct ; 

And shall give such information and assistance to the school 
visitors of the town as they may require. 

§ 171 The committee shall give to the secretary of the QSg^c223u 
board of school visitors notice of the date of the commence- isei i867 
ment and close of each school term, within one week of said SJH^t 
commencement, and at least four weeks before the close, re- ^^^^ 
spectively, and each committee shall, at the expiration of its ■^^p^'^ 
term of office, on the fifteenth of July in each year, or within 
five days thereafter, report to the school visitors in the manner 
and form prescribed by the state board of education. They 
shall return an enumeration of the children residing in the 
district on the first day of October in each year, in accordance 
with the provisions of this title,° and the committee of every 
district formed from parts of two or more towns, shall make 
such return to the school visitors of each of said towns, specify- 
ing the towns to which each person so enumerated belongs ;* 

^ Must be a resident of the district § 144 

Committee must conform to vote of district, and its authority de school- 
house and teacher is contingent on failure of district to act 33 Conn 304 305 

Has power to remove teacher unless district votes otherwise 33 Conn 304 
Mandamus will lie to compel committee to conform to order of district Id 

Previous to enactment of § 172 committee might contract with teacher for a 
period beyond term of oftice 36 Conn 282 See § 197 

Committeeman may forcibly remove scholar 41 Conn 446 

Committee may act as a board by a majority if all are present or have 
notice 46 Conn 408 ^ §§ 134 141 187 

^ When the district has a proper schoolhouse the committee cannot provide 
another schoolroom elsewhere 28 Conn 333 

^ ^ 46 ^ §§ 202 205 ^ ^ 226 



so 

and shall make returns to the secretary of the board of school 
visitors of the town having jurisdiction over the district of the 
receipts, expenditures, and statistics, in accordance with blank 
forms furnished by the secretary of the state board of edu- 
cation.^ 

GS8ec^2S5 § ^72 -^o committee of any school district elected under 

1895 ch 131 the provisions of § 144, shall enter into any contract in behalf 

Limitation of of Said district extendingf beyond the expiration of the term 

power to make , • , , , , i i • i r i • • 

contracts for which he may have been elected, without nrst obtaining at 

a meeting of said district legally called for that purpose a ma- 
jority vote in favor of such proposed action.^ 



Chapter XIII 
Consolidation of School Districts^ 

General Statutes, Chapter 136, page 577 

§ 173 Any town may abolish all the school districts, and 

parts of school districts,* within its limits, and assume and 

■^igi^chl? maintain control of the public schools therein, subject to the 

1889 ch 219 requirements and restrictions imposed by the general assembly ; 

^ ,. , ,. . and for this purpose everv such town shall constitute one school 

Consohdation of r r ^ 

districts district, having all the powers and duties of a school district, 

with the exceptions hereinafter stated. 
GS sec ^213 § ^74^ Whenever a vote shall be taken in any town in 



OS tec 2212 



1866 1869 1875 reference to abolishing school districts and assuming control of 

1889 ch 202 public schools therein, and whenever a vote shall be taken to 

1903 ch 205 re-establish school districts under § 191 of this chapter, such 

Vote to be by votc shall be by ballot*^ at an annual town meeting, upon notice 

ballot at annual ,, . . . . • 7 ^1^1 ^ ^ 1 11 -j 

meeting thereof given in the warning.' ihe selectmen shall provide a 

ballot box for that purpose, marked '' Consolidation of School 
Districts." Those in favor of such consolidation shall deposit 
in said box a ballot with the words " Consolidation of School 

^ To be notified of estimates and appropriations §§215 217 

^ § 105 

^ The assumption of control by the town carries with it all necessary power 
to repair school buildings 71 Conn 740 741 

A town assuming control of the school property holds it in trust for educa- 
tional purposes 7 < Conn 170 171 

Transfer of control from districts to town is merely a transfer from one pub- 
lic agency to another Jb 

■* School districts are mere governmental instruments for the performance of 
the governmental duty of providing education 59 Conn 60 

^ Town registry list is registry list for school purposes § 139 

® Official ballots will be furnished by the secretary of state Gen Stat § 1632 

' What constitutes sufficient notice ; not necessary to give each school dis- 
trict particular notice 73 Conn 166 

The following clause will be sufficient 

To determine by ballot whether the town will abolish all the school districts 
and parts of school districts within its limits and assume and maintain 
control of the public schools 



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Districts, Yes " written or printed thereon, and those opposed 
shall deposit a ballot with the words '' Consolidation of School 
Districts, No " written or printed thereon, and in towns divided 
into wards or voting districts for annual town meetings such a 
ballot box shall be provided at each of such wards or voting 
district^, and the ballots shall be examined, assorted, counted, 
and declared in the manner provided by law.^ Section 1649 of 
the general statutes in so far as the same is inconsistent here- 
with shall not apply to votes taken under the provisions of this 
section.^ 

§ 175 A vote to consolidate the school districts in any GSsecniu 
town into one district shall take effect on the first Monday of Revis^^Wos 
July next succeeding said vote, and any town assuming the j^gchlfg 
control of its public schools, as provided in this chapter, may at when vote to 
any annual meeting, not previous to the fifth annual meeting tJkes effect 
thereafter,^ vote to abandon such control and re-establish the 
several districts as they were before said action, which vote 
shall be by ballot, in the manner prescribed in § 174. 

§ 176 The selectmen of a town voting to consolidate shall QSsecnio 
determine, not later than the first Monday of May, the number ^evisS^Ligs 
of which the town school committee shall consist.* Such com- i889 ch 219 
mittee shall consist of either six, nine, or twelve residents of Section^oTa)m- 
said town. Every such town shall, at a special meeting of said mittee; quaim- 
town called for the purpose by the selectmen, to be held on the 
first Monday of June following, elect by ballot a town school 
committee of the number determined upon by said selectmen. 
In all cases the number of the committee to be elected shall be 
stated in the warning of said meeting. Such election shall be 
conducted in the same manner as the annual elections of towns. ^ 

§ 177 If the number of the committee to be elected shall ossecme 
be six or twelve no person shall vote for more than half that Revii?§2i95 
number; if the number be nine, no person shall vote for more 1^89 ch 219 
than five, and the six, nine, or twelve persons, as the case may sentation'on'^^ 
be, receiving the highest number of votes, shall be the town temi'^oTo^ce 
school committee of said town for the respective terms as here- 
inafter provided, commencing on the first Monday of July 
next following. The members of such committee so elected 
shall divide themselves into three equal classes, holding office 
respectively until the second, third, and fourth subsequent 
annual town elections of said town, at which elections and at 
every annual election, subsequent to the last thereof, two, three, 

^ Gen Stat § 1656 ^ Official envelopes not required 

^ Vote to abandon control, taken before the fifth annual meeting, is of no 
effect 73 Conn 172 

4 See § 87 5 See ^h xix 



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or four members, as the case may be, shall be elected by ballot 
for a term of three years, in the manner prescribed in § 96. 

ossecnn § 178 All business relating to public schools in such towns 

Revi^^§2i96 shall be transacted at town meetings.^ 

fobrdone'l?^'' § 179 The town school committee shall have the powers 

town meetings ^^^^ duties of hisfh school committccs,^ district committees,^ and 

3 sec 2218 , , rui'v 45 

1867 boards of school visitors ; * •" 

^889^4?§? Shall see that good public schools of the different grades 

i895d?304 ^^^ maintained in the various parts of the town for not less 

General powers i See note § 55 ^ g 55 3 ch xii 

?ommUtee ^ § 97 Return of names to secretary of state § 89 Term of office § 90 

Refusal to accept office § 91 Eligibility § 92 
^ Duties and powers 

Town school committee 

1 To enforce labor law § 27 

2 Forward names of pupils for normal schools ^ 14 

3 Give leaving certificates § 19 

4 Examine manufacturing establishments § 28 

5 Employ teacher of music § 42 

6 If directed by town, purchase text-books § 45 

7 Grant hearing to parents in certain cases § 47 

8 Superintend high schools § 66 

9 Consent to attendance of children at non-local high school § 67 
Consent to conveyance of high school children § 71 

10 Provide evening 'school instruction § 74 

Rooms, etc., for evening schools § 75 
Certify attendance to comptroller § 77 
Request relief from evening school law § 79 

1 1 Organization 

Choose chairman, secretary § 97 
For enumeration of duties see ^ 97 
"When chairman shall call meeting § 98 
Secretary shall keep records § 99 

12 Appoint acting visitors §101 

Superintendent § 102 
Compensation § 103 

13 Examine teachers and grant certificates §§ 104, 194 

Revoke certificates § 104 

14 Employ and dismiss teachers §§ 105, 197 

15 Members cannot be appointed teachers §§ 106, 198 

16 Select and approve books and apparatus §§ 107, 200 

17 Returns to comptroller children of certain ages § 108 

18 Text books, cannot change except by two-thirds vote § iir 

19 May require vaccination §§ 112, 266 

20 Preserve books and documents § 113 

21 May administer oath §114 

22 May choose superintendent §115 

Form supervision district § 116 

Petition state board of education for agent to supervise schools 
§ 119 

23 Custodian of registers § 199 

24 May appropriate library money § 201 

25 Make enumeration § 205 

Examine and correct returns § 205 

26 Make certificate to comptroller ^ 207 

27 Certify to average attendance in certain towns § 210 

28 Penalty for fraudulent returns § 229 

29 Recommend changes in schoolhouses to secure light, ventilation, or 

sanitary arrangements § 264 



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than the length of time that would be required had no such 
consolidation been made ; 

Manage the property of the town pertaining to schools ; 

Examine/ employ, and dismiss the teachers for the schools 
of such towns f 

Lodge all bonds, leases, notes, and other securities with the 
treasurer of said town, unless the same have been intrusted to 
others by the grantors, or the general assembly ; 

Pay the town treasurer all money which they may receive 
for the support of schools ; 

Determine the number and qualifications of the scholars to 
be admitted into each school ; 

Designate the schools which shall be attended by the chil- 
dren within their jurisdiction, and may arrange with the com- 
mittee of any adjacent town or district for the instruction 
therein of such children as may attend there more conveniently ; 

Shall fill vacancies in their own number until the next 
annual town meeting when vacancies shall be filled as pro- 
vided in § 176, and the ballots shall distinctly specify the va- 
cancy to be filled ; 

Shall annually, during the first two weeks of September, 
ascertain the expenses of maintaining the schools under their 
superintendence, during the year ending the fourteenth day 
of the previous July,^ and report the same, with the amount of 
moneys received toward the payment thereof, to the annual 
town meeting, and shall, at the same time, make a full report 
of their doings, and the condition of the schools under their 
superintendence, and of all important matters concerning the 
same; 

And shall perform all lawful acts which may be required 
of them by the town or which may be necessary to carry into 
effect the provisions of this title.* 

§ 180 Such towns shall assume the property and be re- Qsseenw 
sponsible for the debts of the districts within their respective „ _^„i867 
limits.^ Such property shall be appraised and the amount of the „ , , 

1 1 1 1- • r 1 Property of ( 

debts estimated under the direction of the town, and the ap- soiidateddis 
praised value of such property may be raised by a tax to be 
laid by the town on its grand list next completed ; and if such 
tax is raised, the taxpayers in each of the districts previously 
existing shall be paid or credited on the rate bill with their 
respective proportions of any excess of the property of such 
district over and above its liabilities, as ascertained by the town ; 

' § 104 2 § 105 3 § 216 

* Powers conferred and duties imposed by this section construed 65 Conn 
183 

6 See § 129 



Rev 1888 §2198 

of con- 
ted 

tricts 



54 



Q S sec 2220 

1887 
Rev 1888 §2199 

Time for paying 
tax extended 



G S sec 2221 

1887 
Rev 1888 §2200 

Proceedings in 
case of joint dis- 
tricts 



G S sec 2222 

1872 
Rev 1888 §2201 

Managenaent of 

permanent 

funds 



or the difference in the value of the property of the several dis- 
tricts may be adjusted in any other manner agreed upon by the 
parties in interest. Permanent funds vested in any town for 
school purposes shall remain in charge of the school fund 
treasurer of the town. 

§ i8i Whenever any town shall have assumed control of 
and appraised the school property as provided in § i8o, the 
town may, by vote in town meeting, extend the time in which 
the taxpayers of any district or districts shall be required to 
pay the excess of assessment over the appraised value of the 
property in such district for a period not exceeding five years, 
and all the property belonging to the school districts over 
which any town has assumed or shall assume control shall be 
vested in such town to be held for school purposes so long as so 
required, and may be sold and deeded by said town when not 
required for school purposes. 

§ 182 Whenever any town has voted, or shall vote, to as- 
sume control of all the schools, as provided in this chapter, in 
case there is a joint district the selectmen of the towns out of 
which such joint district is formed shall meet within ten days 
after receiving a written request for such meeting signed by the 
first selectman of either of said towns, and appraise the school- 
house and other school property owned and used by said joint 
district and determine what proportion is owned by the inhabi- 
tants of the towns residing in said district. If the several 
boards of selectmen shall not agree, the same shall be deter- 
mined by a judge of the superior court upon application of 
either of the boards of selectmen, and his decision shall be final. 
The proportion belonging to the taxpayers of the town in which 
the property is not located, after deducting the indebtedness 
of the district, shall be paid to the treasurer of such town by 
the treasurer of the town in which such property is located, and 
the same shall be remitted to the taxpayers of said town. 

§ 183 In case any school district, formerly existing in a 
town in which the school districts have been or shall be abol- 
ished or consolidated, has received a permanent fund for the 
support of a school or schools in said district, the school fund 
treasurer shall have charge of it, and keep a separate account 
thereof ; and the income of said fund shall be held subject to the 
order of the town school committee, which shall apply it for the 
benefit of the school or schools within or nearest to the limits of 
the district formerly existing, in such manner as to carry out, 
as nearly as possible, the intent of the grantor of said fund.^ 

' %% 54 87 



55 

§ 184 Every such town shall be entitled to receive from GS8ec22ts 
the state, annually, and upon the conditions prescribed for Rev 1888 §2202 
school districts, for the purposes of school libraries, a sum not scnooi libraries 
exceeding the aggregate amount which the former districts of 
said town might have received in like circumstances.^ 

§ 185 The expenses of maintaining public schools in such assec^nu 
towns, which shall be incurred with the approval of the town rIvSs^ 
school committee, shall be paid by the town treasurer on orders i903ch59 
drawn by the town school committee, except so far as they Soofex^nses 
may be met by the income from local school funds. Such 
orders may be signed by such persons on behalf of the school 
committee as the committee by by-law or special vote, certified 
by the secretary to the town treasurer, may provide ; and in the 
absence of such by-law^ or special direction by the secretary. 

§ 186 When any part of a school district lying in two or gs sec 2225 
more towns shall be abolished or consolidated by either, its Revi^§2204 
selectmen shall give immediate notice thereof to the selectmen Notice when 
of the other town or towns, which shall thereafter provide for fg^abou^hed"^^ 
the schooling of the children belonging thereto, who formerly 
belonged to said school district. 

§ 187 Any school district which has been, or shall be, GSsecn^e 

abolished by any town, may settle and close up its affairs; and Revi^§2205 

its district committee last elected, or the selectmen of said town, settlement of 

may call special meetings of the district. tboiished dis- 

§ 188 If any such district has, or shall, become liable, by *"*^i 
. , . -^ . '. ' , '.-^ OS sec 2221 

judgment or otherwise, to pay any claims or demands upon it, 1379 

or if expenses and liabilities have been or shall be incurred by it ^e^^888§2206 

in settling up its affairs, after consolidation, the selectmen of debts of district 

said town, upon the request of said district, shall pay the same 

and charge the amount to the district, and said amount shall 

be raised by the selectmen adding the same to the tax to be 

laid by the said town on its grand list next completed of the 

taxable property of such district. 

§ 189 Said selectmen shall collect all taxes, claims, and gs sec 2228 
demands in favor of such district, in the name of the district, Rev 1^^2207 
and credit the same to the district, less expenses of collection, collection of 

§ 190 When any town has voted to re-establish its school *!^f ^,fi!^"'* 
districts as provided m § 175, each of the districts shall pay the 18671877 
town for all improvements which the town has made on the ^^^^ i*^8.§2209 
schoolhouse, its furniture, and appurtenances within the dis- bursedforim- 
trict. The amounts to be thus paid shall be determined by the p'"<'^*^°'^°^ 
selectmen and the town school committee. When such pay- 
ments are made the town shall restore or make good to each 

' Chxv 



S6 

of the districts the school property and local funds formerly 
belonging to the district. If any district shall refuse or neglect 
to make the payment required by this section till the expiration 
of six months after the passage of the vote of the town to re- 
establish the districts, the selectmen may cause a tax sufficient 
to make said payment, including the cost of laying and collect- 
ing such tax, to be laid on the district in the manner provided 
by law for school district taxes except that the selectmen shall 
perform the duties required of district committees therein, and 
to be collected and paid to the town. 
QSsecnso § 191 A vote to re-establish the school districts shall not 

KeviS§22io take effect further than to authorize the district to hold meet- 
Votetore-estab- ings, lay and collect taxes, and appoint officers for these pur- 
poses, till all the settlements and payments required by § 190 
have been made ; and unless such payments and settlements are 
made within one year after the passage of said vote said vote 
shall be null and void. 
GS6ec22si § 192 When any town in which the school districts have 

1877 been consolidated has abandoned or shall abandon such system, 

Esv 1888 S2211 

Town school ^^^ pcrsous elected school committee of such consolidated dis- 
committee to be- tricts at the clcction next preceding^ such abandonment shall be 

come school vis- . - , , ° , - , - . . 

itors and remain the members of the board of school visitors of such 

town, with all the powers and duties of school visitors, during 

the term for which they were or may be respectively elected, in 

the same manner as if elected school visitors of such town. 

GSsec22S2 § 193 Towus shall have the same powers, and be subject 

Revi^§22i2 ^^ ^^^ Same regulations, as school districts, in taking land for 

1895 ch 27 schoolhouses, oiitbuildings, and convenient accommodations for 

Taking land for cr^Virvnlc i 
school purposes i'<-J^U<->A^- 



Chapter XIV 
Teachers' 

General Statutes, Chapter 140, page 584 

G 8 BBC 221,5 § ^94 School visitors, town school committees, or boards 

1856 1867 1872 of cducatiou shall, as a board, or bv a committee by them ap- 

Revl888 ' " J f 

§§2132 2135 , r,^ o , 

2197 2221 ^§§ 1 58-161 

1893 ch 157 §4 ^ I May be employed by — a school visitors § 40 

fi^i^^if^i^^lc <5 board of education § 59 

c district committees § 123 

d town committees § 179 

e high school committees § 65 

/ teacher of music § 42 

2 May be examined by — a state board of education § 4 

b school visitors § 194 

c boards of education § 61 

d town committee § 179 



1901 ch 81 



57 

pointed, examine^ all persons desiring to teach in the public Examination of 
schools ; and give to those with whose moral character and Ses^™' ^^^^^' 
ability they are satisfied, if found qualified to teach reading, 
writing, arithmetic, and grammar, the rudiments of geography 
and history, and the rudiments of drawing if required,^ a cer- 
tificate authorizing the holder to teach in any public school in 
the town or district so long as desired, without further examina- 
tion unless specially ordered ; such certificate may limit the au- 
thority to teach to a specified time or in a specified school.^ No 
certificate to teach in grades above the third in graded schools 
nor in classes corresponding to such grades in ungraded schools 
shall be granted to any person who has not passed a satisfactory 
examination in hygiene, including the effects of alcohol and 
narcotics on health and character.* If a person is examined 
and found qualified to teach branches other than those required 
in all cases, such branches shall be named in his certificate. 
Said certificate shall be signed by a majority of the board or 
committee or by all the members of the committee appointed 
to examine. They may revoke the certificates of such teachers 

3 Make eyesight tests § 5 

4 Shall be paid once a month unless district vote otherwise § 219 

5 The reasonableness of the punishment administered by a school teacher 
to a pupil is purely a question of fact 53 Conn 481 

6 A school teacher has a right to require obedience to reasonable rules and 
a proper submission to his authority, and to inflict punishment for disobedi- 
ence Id 

In the absence of rules established by the school board or other proper 
authority, the teacher has a right to make all necessary and proper rules for the 
regulation of the school Id 

In inflicting corporal punishment the teacher must be governed, as to the 
mode and severity of it, by the nature of the offense, and by the age, size, and 
physical condition of the pupil Where a boy has been habitually refractory 
and disobedient, the teacher, in punishing him for a particular offense, may 
take into consideration his habitual disobedience Id 

And it is not necessary that he should inform the pupil at the time that he 
is punishing him for his past as well as present misconduct Id 



104 



2 § § 17 38 104 

^ General certificate of teacher is sufficient in any district of the town where 
issued 36 Conn 282 

A general certificate of examination and approbation not limited to any 
particular district or term of school makes the holder qualified to teach in any 
district of the town unless it is revoked or a re-examination required 36 Conn 
282 

The provision as to new certificate, if required by school visitors, applies 
only to certificates limited as to time or qualification 36 Conn 282 

A school district contracting with a teacher who has an old certificate from 
the board of school visitors, without requiring a new one, cannot afterwards 
repudiate the contract because he should have had a new one Id 

' §§ 43 44 



58 



G S sec niS 

1884 
Rev 1888 §2222 
1895 ch 135 

State board of 
education may 
grant certificate 



G S sec ^2h7 
1856 
Rev 1888 
§§2221 2222 
1895 ch 135 

Teacher must 
have a certifi- 
cate 



G SsecniS 

ia56 1857 1867 

Rev 1888 

§§2122 2130 

2135 2155 

2197 2213 

2216 

1895 ch 131 

Who may em- 
ploy teachers 

School visitors 

Town 



O Ssec 22U9 
1895 ch 67 

Teacher not to 
be a school visi 
tor 

School visitor 



G S sec 2250 

1856 1867 1875 

Rev 1888 §2223 

1895 ch 21 



as shall at any time be found incompetent to teach or to manage 
a school, or fail to conform to their requirements/ 

§ 195 The state board of education may, upon public 
examination in such branches and upon such terms as it may 
prescribe, grant a certificate of qualification to teach in any 
public school in the state, and may revoke the same. The cer- 
tificate of qualification issued under this section shall be ac- 
cepted by boards of school visitors, boards of education, and 
town school committees in lieu of any other examination. 

§ 196 No teacher shall be employed in any school receiv- 
ing any portion of its support from the public money until he 
has received a certificate of approbation in accordance with the 
provisions of this chapter ; nor shall any teacher be entitled to 
any wages, so far as the same are paid out of any public 
money appropriated to schools,- unless he can produce such 
certificate, dated previous to the opening of his school. 

§ 197 -Town school committees, boards of education, and 
high school and district committees unless otherwise directed 
by the district or ordered by the town, shall employ and dismiss 
the teachers for the schools of their respective towns or dis- 
tricts;^ but no district committee shall employ a teacher for a 
longer period of time than that for which he may have been 
elected without first obtaining, at a meeting of said district 
legally called for that purpose, a majority vote in favor of such 
proposed action.* Any town, unless otherwise provided, may 
direct the school visitors to employ the teachers for all public 
schools of the town for such terms of the schools as it may 
specify. 

§ 198 No person elected to the ofifice of school visitor or 
town school committee shall be employed as teacher in the 
town where he is school visitor or member of the town school 
committee. If any school visitor or member of the town school 
committee shall be employed, contrary to the provisions of this 
section the oflice of school visitor or town school committee 
to which he was elected shall become vacant. 

§ 199 The teacher of every public school shall correctly 
keep the school register provided by the state, in the manner 

' Teacher may be discharged by the district ; and in absence of action by 
the district, may be discharged by the committee 33 Conn 304 

If improperly discharged by the committee the district may compel re- 
instatement 33 Conn 305 306 

Is not a public officer in ordinary sense of the word ; his wages are subject 
to attachment 53 Conn 509 Status of teacher, as to district lb ^ (y^ xvi 

2 Teachers may be discharged by the district, or in the absence of any 
action by the district, by the district committee, if they think it for the interest 
of the school If improperly discharged against the orders of the district, they 
will be reinstated by a writ of mandamus 33 Conn 304-306 

■* Previous to enactment of i^ 172 a teacher might Idc employed by the com- 
mittee for a period extending beyond committee's term of office 36 Conn 282 



59 

and form required by the state board of education/ and at the Teacher to keep 
end of each school term, and before said teacher shall leave ^^s^^*®'" 
such school, shall certify in writing to the correctness of the 
same, and immediately deliver it to the secretary of the board 
of school visitors,^ town school committee, or board of education 
having jurisdiction over such school ; and no teacher shall re- 
ceive any pay except for such time as the register has been 
legally kept and certified. 



Chapter XV 
School Libraries and Philosophical Apparatus 

General Statutes, Chapter 139, page 583 



§ 200 The treasurer of the state, upon the order of the GSgeci22^ 
secretary of the state board of education,^ shall pay ten dollars J^sg isgt i^ 

•^ , . .. . , ... ,., 1B<0 1872 It 

to every school district, and to every town maintaining a high J|^^/^^^^ 
school, which shall raise by tax or otherwise a like sum for the 



state grant 

same purpose, to establish within such district, or for the use 
of such high school, a school library composed of books of 
reference, and other books to be used in connection with school 
work, and to procure maps, globes, or any proper philosophical 
and chemical apparatus ; and the further sum of five dollars 
annually,* upon a like order, to every such district or town 
which has raised a like sum for the current year for maintain- 
ing or replenishing such library or apparatus. 

If the number of scholars in actual attendance^ in any such 
district or high school exceeds one hundred the treasurer shall 
pay ten dollars in the first instance, and five dollars annually 
thereafter, for every one hundred or fractional part of a hun- 
dred scholars in excess of the first hundred. 

The expense incurred by any district in accordance with 
the provisions of this section may be reckoned among its inci- 
dental expenses, to be defrayed in the manner provided in this 
title for such incidental expenses. 

The selection of all books and apparatus shall be made or 
approved by the board of school visitors, or the town school school visitors 
committee, which shall also prescribe the rules for their man- 
agement, use, and safe-keeping.^ 

§ 201 The town school committee or the joint board of GSsecsi'us 

1889 ch 17 
1 § 2 2 § lOI 3 § 8 

'* The library year coincides with the calendar year 

' Actual attendance means number of different scholars registered in school 
year 

^ Teachers may ask advice and assistance of the Connecticut public library 
committee § 246 



6o 

Purchase of Selectmen and school visitors in each town may appropriate 
apparatu? monev for the purchase of books and apparatus to be used in 
the public schools of the town. The money thus appropriated 
shall be expended by a committee on libraries and apparatus, 
annually appointed by the town school committee or school 
visitors, to whom the treasurer of the town shall pay such 
money upon the written order of such committee. 

The treasurer of the state upon the order of the secretary of 
the state board of education shall annually pay said committee 
five dollars for every public school within said town, and, if the 
number of scholars in any public school within the town ex- 
ceeds one hundred, the treasurer shall annually pay to said 
committee five dollars for every one hundred scholars and 
fractional part of one hundred scholars in actual attendance 
at such school ; but no greater amount shall be paid to such 
committee by the state than is paid during the same year by the 
town for the same purpose ; and provided that any amount 
paid by the state under § 200 to any district or for any high 
school within said town shall be deducted from the amount 
payable under this section. 

The books and apparatus so purchased shall remain the 
property of the town and under the care and control of said 
committee. 

Chapter XVI 
Support of Public Schools^ 

General Statutes, Chapter 141, page 586 

GS sec 2252 § 202 The committcc of each school district or, if they 

1838 1849^1878 fail or are unable to do so, the clerk, shall annually in October 
Eev 1888 §2224 ascertain the name and age of every person over four and 

1889ch26§l ^ -^ ^ 

1897 ch 50 1 Gen Stat § 61 Whenever any specific appropriation of money may have 

1901 ch 82 been made by the general assembly, by the representatives and senators of any 
county, or by any community or corporation named in the preceding section, every 
agent, commissioner, or executive officer of the state, or of any county, city, 
borough, town, or school district, who shall wilfully authorize or contract for 
the expenditure of any money, or the creation of any debt for any purpose in 
excess of the amount specifically appropriated for such purpose by the general 
assembly, the county representatives and senators, or the community or corpora- 
tion of which he is agent, commissioner, or executive officer, unless such expen- 
diture shall be made or debt contracted for the necessary repair of roads or 
bridges, or the necessary support of schools or paupers, in cases arising after the 
proper appropriation has been exhausted, shall be fined not exceeding one 
thousand dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding one year, or both 
Gen Stat § 60 The general assembly, in behalf of the state ; the repre- 
sentatives of the towns and the senators resident in the several counties, in 
behalf of their respective counties ; every city, by its common council when so 
authorized by its charter, or by its freemen in legal meeting assembled ; and 
every town, borough, or school district, by legal meeting of its qualified voters, 
may make appropriations of specific sums of money for any purpose authorized 
by law, and by the warnings of the meetings at which the appropriations are 
made 

As to what constitutes an appropriation see 58 Conn 486 



6i 

under sixteen years of age who shall belong to such district/ Enumerationof 
on the first Monday of said month, and the place, year, and dSSfts^ 
month when such persons last attended school, together with 
the name of the parents, guardians, or the employers of such 
persons, and return the same to the school visitors of the 
town to which such district belongs, on or before the twen- 
tieth of October ; children temporarily residing in one district 
but having parents or guardians residing in another shall be 
enumerated only as belonging to the latter district.^ For mak- 
ing such enumeration the committee or clerk of the district 
shall receive one dollar, and in addition thereto three cents for 
each child enumerated in excess of fifty, and the cost of said 
enumeration shall be paid from the amount appropriated by 
the town for the support of schools in said district. If the 
return of enumeration is not made to the board of school 
visitors on or before said twentieth of October, one of the 
school visitors or a person duly appointed by the board of 
school visitors shall make a complete enumeration before the 
first of November next following and return it to said school 
visitors, and shall receive therefor a sum not to exceed five 
cents for each child so enumerated. 

§ 203 Such return shall be signed and sworn to by the QSseessss 
person makinsf it, substantially in the followinsr form : i849 

"Rev 1888 S2225 

I hereby certify that I have carefully enumerated, according i889ch26S2 



to law, all persons between the ages of four and sixteen years, 1895 ch 

within the school district, and find that on the first ^^^'^ ^^ ^ 

Monday of October, A.D. 19 — , there were of such persons, re- Return of 

siding in and belonging to said district, the number of . enumeration 

A. B. 
On this day of , A. D. 19 — , per- 
sonally appeared the above-named A. B. and made oath to the 
truth of the above return by him subscribed before me. 

, Justice of the Peace. 

§ 204 The school visitors of the town shall examine and gs sec 2251* 
correct the returns made to them, so that no person shall be jj^y^^^ 
enumerated twice in different districts or be improperly re- i889ch26 
turned, and lodge them as corrected with the town treasurer. 1397 ch 50 

^ Phrase "who shall belong to such district" construed 59 Conn 491 492 
No distinction between "domicile" and "actual residence" as to subjects of 
enumeration lb 

a § 2130, General Statutes, provides that the public schools of the districts 
"shall be open to all children over four years of age in the respective districts " ; 
§ 2252 provides for the enumeration of all children of school age " who shall be- 
long to such district" ; and § 2253 for a return by the enumerators of children 
" residing within the school districts" Under these sections it is not necessary 
that a child should be domiciled in the district, but enough if it is residing in the 
district in the ordinary sense of that term 

b A child of school age, whose parents reside in another state, but who had 
lived for several years, and expected to continue to live, in the family of a domi- 
ciled resident of the district, was entitled to the privileges of the district school 
Yale vs West Middle School District 59 Conn 489 2 § 

^ Enumeration of children in temporary homes see ^5 82 



Correction of 

returns 

certificate 



62 



They shall also transmit to the comptroller/ on or before the 
fifth day of December, annually, a certificate in which the 
number of persons shall be inserted in words at full length, 
which shall be sworn to, substantially, according to the follow- 
ing form: 

We, the school visitors of the town of , certify 

that from the returns made to us under oath, as by law pro- 
vided, we find that on the first Monday of October, A.D. 19 — , 
there were residing within the school districts belonging to said 

town the number of persons between four and sixteen 

years of age; and from the best information we can obtain, we 
believe that said number is correct. 



on this 



day of 



School Visitors. 
A.D. 19—, per- 



G^S gee 2255 \ 
Rev 1875 p 139 
Rev 1888 
§§2197 2224 
1889 ch 26 
1897 ch 50 
1901 ch 82 
1903 ch 64 

Enumeration in 

consolidated 

districts 



G S sec 2256 

1884 

Rev 1888 §2226 

Penalty for 
refusing to give 
age of child 



G S sec 2257 

1849 1854 1856 

1871 1872 



sonally appeared the above-named school visitors, and made oath 
to the truth of the above certificate by them subscribed before 
me. C. D. 

Justice of the Peace. 

§ 205 Town school committees shall annually appoint one 
or more persons who shall, in October of each year, ascertain 
the name and age of every person over four and under sixteen 
years of age who shall belong to such town on the first Mon- 
day of said month, and the place, year, and month when such 
person last attended school, together with the names of the 
parents, guardians, or employers of such person, and return 
the same to the town school committee on or before the twen- 
tieth of October. Said person so appointed shall receive a sum 
not exceeding five cents for each child so enumerated. Such 
return shall be signed by the person making it, and sworn to 
substantially according to the form prescribed in § 203. The 
town school committee shall examine and correct the returns 
made to it so that no person shall be enumerated twice or be 
improperly returned, and lodge them, as corrected, with the 
town treasurer, and shall also transmit to the comptroller, on 
or before the fifth of December annually, a certificate in which 
the number of persons shall be inserted in words at full length, 
which shall be sworn to, substantially according to the form 
prescribed in § 204. 

§ 206 Every person having control of a child between 
four and sixteen years of age, who shall wilfully refuse to give 
the person making the enumeration required by this chapter the 
name and age of such child, and such information concerning 
the school attendance of such child as said chapter requires, 
shall be fined three dollars. 

§ 207 The comptroller shall annually, as soon after the 
twenty-eighth of February as may be, draw orders for the 

'§108 



63 

support of the common schools at the rate of two dollars and Revises §2228 
twenty-five cents for each child between the ages of four and ilg-chs^ 
sixteen years on the enumeration last made and perfected, Grant by state 
which orders shall be payable from the civil list funds of the 
state, and be divided and distributed among the several towns 
in proportion to the number of persons in each between the ages 
of four and sixteen years, as ascertained from said returns ; 
and he shall transmit the amount distributed to each town 
to its treasurer, on the application of its school visitors, or its 
town school committee ; but no such money shall be trans- 
mitted to any town until the comptroller shall have received 
from its school visitors or committee a certificate, signed by 
them or their chairman and secretary, and substantially in the 
following form : 

We, the school visitors (or town school committee) of the 

town of , certify that the schools in said town have 

been kept for the period required by law during the year ending 
the fourteenth day of July last, by teachers duly examined and 
approved, and have been visited according to law; and that all 
moneys drawn from the public treasury by said to^vn for said 
year, appropriated to schooling, have been faithfully applied 
and expended in paying for teachers' wages, and for no other 
purpose whatever. 

Dated at , this day of , A. 

D. 19—. 

) School Visitors 

y ( or To\vn School 

) Committee ) . 

To the comptroller. 
§ 208 Every town having a valuation of less than five 1903 ch 102 §1 
hundred thousand dollars may annually receive from the treas- support of 

-^ •' gchools 

urer of the state upon the order of the comptroller a sum Average 
which will enable the town to annually expend for the support attendance 
of public schools twenty-five dollars for each child in average ^erlaiu to^Tis 
attendance, as determined by the attested school registers for 
the school year ending July fourteenth ; provided, that pay- 
ments of principal or interest on indebtedness, the expense of 
new buildings, sites, and permanent improvements shall not 
be included in obtaining the cost of each scholar in average 
attendance, and, provided, that the said state grant shall be 
expended only for teachers' wages. 

§ 209 The comptroller shall not draw an order in favor 1903 ch 102 §2 
of a town under the provisions of § 208 unless the town, in condition; four 
the year for which said average attendance grant is made, shall 
have laid and collected a tax of not less than four mills on its 
grand list for the support of schools and shall have expended 
the same. 

§ 210 The secretary of the board of school visitors or 1903 ch 102 §3 
town school committee of every town entitled to a grant under payment by 

the state 



64 



GS see 2261 

1856 
Rev 1888 §2230 



Comptroller 
may make 
deduction from 
school moneys 



OS sec 2263 

1798 
Rev 1888 §2231 

Misapplication 
of school 
money , 



G 8 sec 2263 

1870 
Rev 1888 §2232 

Income of town 
deposit fmid 



GSsec226U 

1872 
Rev 1888 §2233 

School society 
and district 
fund 



the provisions of § 208, shall on or before the fourteenth day 
of July, 1904, and annually thereafter, certify under oath to the 
state board of education upon blanks to be furnished by said 
board, the average attendance in each school in said town, 
and shall also certify that the schools of the town have been 
kept for the period required by law during the year ending 
the fourteenth day of July, by teachers legally examined and 
found qualified, and that the amount raised by tax as provided 
by § 209 has been expended for the support of public schools, 
and that the state grant authorized by § 208 has been expended 
for teachers' wages and for no other purpose. The comp- 
troller shall, on application of said board, draw an order on 
the treasurer in favor of the town for the amount provided 
in § 208. 

§ 211 When the school in any school district shall not be 
kept according to law,^ the school visitors of the town, to which 
such district belongs, shall, in their certificate or certificates to 
the comptroller for the year following, state such fact, and 
also the number of children enumerated in such district ; and 
when application is made for the school moneys payable to 
such town for said year, he shall deduct from the whole number 
of children enumerated in such town the number contained in 
such district; and shall draw an order for such part only of 
the moneys that would otherwise go to said town, as is pro- 
portioned to the number of children in the remaining districts 
therein. 

§ 212 If any money appropriated to the use of schools 
shall be applied by a town or school district to any other pur- 
pose, such town or school district shall forfeit the amount 
thereof to the state; and the comptroller shall sue for the 
same in behalf of the state, to be applied, when recovered, to 
the use of schools. 

§ 213 The income of the town deposit fund,^ belonging to 
any town, and of any other town fund which is or shall be 
established or appropriated for the support of public schools 
in any town, shall be paid annually into the town treasury, 
for the support of public schools therein. 

§ 214 The income of any fund that is or shall be estab- 
lished or appropriated for the support of public schools in any 
school district or school society existing in any town, shall be 
paid annually into the treasury of such district or society, for 
the support of public schools therein ; but if such district or 

^ § 109 A district is not entitled to any state or town money unless the 
schoolhouse and outbuildings are satisfactory to the school visitors § 153 
^ Ch xvii 



65 

society shall at any time cease to exist, then the principal of 
said fund shall be paid over to the school fund treasurer of 
the town ;^ the income thereof to be applied for the support of 
public schools therein, in the manner prescribed in § 183. 

§ 215 The school visitors and selectmen in each town GSsecnos 
which has not voted to consolidate its school districts shall Rev?888p234 
meet as a joint board on the third Tuesday of June in each i^9'^chi26 
year, and prepare a statement showing the estimated cost of JoTni^of^sciooi^ 
each and all the public schools in their town, for the next sue- visitors and 

•^ selectmen 

ceeding school year, and shall immediately thereafter notify 
the committees of the respective school districts of the several 
amounts so fixed. 

§ 216 The school year shall commence on the fifteenth as sec 2266 
day of July, and end on the fourteenth day of July. Revi888%235 

§ 217 The school visitors and selectmen in each town gchooi^e'aP 
which has not voted to consolidate its districts shall, as a joint defined 
board, present at the annual town meeting a written or printed jg^-g igr-o 
statement of the total cost of each and all of the public schools in ^^^ ^^^ §2^'^^ 
such town for the school year next preceding-, and an esti- _ . , 

1,1 ri 11 Estimates; ex- 

mate of the cost of such schools for the current school year, pensesexceed 
Said board shall also on or before the fifteenth of October in ^"^ ^^ ^^^ ^ 
each year fix the several amounts which in their judgment 
will be sufficient to pay the wages of teachers, including board, 
and the incidental expenses of maintaining the schools in the 
various districts within the jurisdiction of such town, for the 
period during the current year, that schools are required by 
law, or by vote of the town, to be maintained ; shall notify the 
respective districts of the several amounts so fixed; and if 
any district, by contributing the teachers' board, or any of tfie 
incidental expenses of the school, be enabled to continue its 
school year beyond the time required by law, said district shall, 
subject to the approval of the board of school visitors, be en- 
titled to the whole amount so fixed. 

§ 218 The secretary of the board of school visitors shall os sec 2268 
keep, in a book provided by the town, a record of all the de- ReviS%i46 
cisions of the joint board of school visitors and selectmen. Record 

§ 219 Whenever a school district shall, at its annual QSg^c22Go 
school meeting, neglect to fix the time or period for the pay- isro 1872 i885 
ment of its teachers, they shall be paid at the end of each Rev 1888 §22.37 
school month, and at the close of every such month or period ^^^^ ^^ ""* 
for the payment of teachers and on the certificate of the school payment to 
visitors or acting visitor or visitors that the schools of the ^^^^'"'^^^ 
district for such month or period have been kept in all re- 
spects according to law the selectmen shall draw an order 

' §§ 54 87 
5 



66 



G S sec S270 

1885 
Rev 1888 §2238 

Payment of 
teacher 



G S sec 2271 

1870 
Kev 1888 §2239 

Tax in city 
school districts 



G <S sec 2272 

1860 
Rev 1888 §2240 



on the town treasurer in favor of such district for a sum of 
money sufficient, and no more than sufficient, to pay the ex- 
penses incurred by such district for said month or period for 
the wages of teachers, including board, and for fuel and in- 
cidental expenses, if the expenses incurred by the district for 
the above-named purposes, during the school year, do not ex- 
ceed the amount fixed upon for such district as provided in 
this chapter. If such expenses exceed said amount, the joint 
board of school visitors and selectmen shall meet, on or before 
the fourteenth of July in each year, and decide whether or not 
the expenditure in excess of the amount fixed upon was 
necessary to maintain the school or schools of the district for 
the time required by law. If said board shall decide that such 
additional expense was necessary, the selectmen shall draw 
an order on the town treasurer for an amount sufficient to 
pay the same; but if said joint board shall decide that such 
additional expense was not necessary the district shall pay it, 
unless the town otherwise order. 

§ 220 Whenever a district shall vote to pay its teacher 
or teachers oftener than once each term, and for fixed periods 
of not less than four weeks each, or when, as provided in 
§ 219, the salary of teachers shall be payable monthly, it shall 
be the duty of the school visitors, or acting school visitor or 
visitors, at the close of each of the aforesaid periods of school 
or school months, to give to the selectmen a certificate stating 
whether or not the schools of the district have been kept in all 
respects according to law during such period. 

§ 221 No town which includes a city within its limits 
shall be required to expend for school purposes in any year a 
greater sum than would be raised by a tax of one mill on its 
grand list, if said city is organized into one or more school 
districts by which a sum has been appropriated for the support 
of public schools during the year in which such tax would 
be payable, sufficient, with the income derived from other 
sources, to pay the wages of teachers, the cost of fuel, and the 
incidental expenses of the public schools of said district or 
districts for at least thirty-six weeks of said year ; provided, 
that said sum shall be paid, without abatement, on or before 
the first of March next following the time at which the town 
tax shall have become due, to the several school districts in 
the town, in proportion to the number of children in each, at 
the last preceding enumeration, between the ages of four and 
sixteen years. 

§ 222 Every town which shall neglect or refuse to pro- 
vide for the support of its schools shall forfeit to the state 



(>7 

a sum equal to the amount which it is required to raise and Neglect to sup- 

. , port school 

appropriate. 

S 223 When the number of scholars in any district for c^s sec 227s 

1870 1880 

any term of school shall be so small that in the judgment of Kevi888§224i 
the school visitors the maintenance of a separate school in 1893W96 
said district for such term is inexpedient, said board of school Discontinuance 
visitors may unite the school of such district with the school transportation^' 
of an adjoining district or districts, and when the school of °*"^^^^^^^" 
any district shall be thus united with the school of another 
district or districts it shall be as full a compliance with the 
law as if said district had maintained a separate school for 
the time required by law. Whenever any school shall be dis- 
continued, under the provisions of this section the school 
visitors may provide transportation for children to and from 
school, and the expenses of such transportation, when ap- 
proved by the board of school visitors, shall be paid by the 
town treasurer, upon the order of the selectmen. 

§ 224 If a district maintains a school of a higher order GSsec227u 
than is required by law, and thereby incurs increased expense Rev 1888^242 
for its school ; or if any district shall continue its school for a Extra expenses 
longer time than is provided for at the expense of the town, Sict^^^ 
according to § 38, or if any district shall expend for teachers' 
wages or other purposes, a sum which the school visitors and 
selectmen deem unnecessary and extravagant ; the cost of such 
school, above the sum received by such district from the town, 
shall be paid by a tax laid by said district. Nothing, however, 
in this title shall be construed as forbidding the payment of 
the additional expenses of continuing a school, longer than 
the time required by law, by voluntary contribution or by 
tuition charges. 

§ 225 No district shall be entitled to receive any money gs sec 2275 
from the state or town in any year, unless the district com- Eevi888§2243 
mittee shall have made, on or before the fifteenth of July pre- i889ch47§3 
ceding, or within five days thereafter, the report required by reSiv^no 

§-ryr money unless " 

/ report is made 

§ 226 The amount of the annual state appropriation, ap- District 
portioned to any school district formed from parts of two or qs sec 2276 
more towns, shall be paid into the treasury of the town havinsf isro i87i i876 

• • J- .• 1 J- . • . J .1 • • r o Rev 1888 §2244 

jurisdiction over such district under the provisions 01 § 133; i889ch26§2 

and the expenses of the school in such district shall be paid by ^ ' ^^^ 

said town, in the same manner and on the same conditions as if ^^^^ ^^ ^'^'^ 

said district lay wholly within it ; but during September, in 

each year, the school visitors of said town shall ascertain the 

cost of maintaining said school for the year ending on the Apportionment 

fourteenth of the preceding July ; not including, however, in disSs 



6Z 

such ascertainment, the amount received by said district from 
any fund that is or shall be established or granted for the 
support of public schools in said district ; and, having deducted 
from this amount the sums received by the town for such dis- 
trict during said year from the state appropriation, shall ap- 
portion the remainder of the cost of such school among the 
towns in which such district lies, in proportion to the number 
of persons between the ages of four and sixteen years, as as- 
certained by the enumeration made in the October preceding, 
and shall, before the first Monday in October, present a copy 
of said apportionment to the selectmen of each of said towns ; 
and the selectmen of the town or towns not having jurisdiction 
over said district -shall cause the sums, thus apportioned to 
their respective towns, to be paid to the town having jurisdic- 
tion over said district.^ 
GSsec2277 § 227 The selectmen of any town schooling children re- 

S^'*'S?i^?^. siding: in another town and in a district in which no school is 

Rev 1888 §2244 . ^ . , . , , . .. • , 1 ., 

1889 ch 133 maintained may ascertain the expense oi schooling said chil- 
Expenses of (jj-gn and present a bill of said expense to the selectmen of the 

joint districts , , . , .,,.,, . . x <• 1 1 i- 

town m which said children reside. If the town schooling 
children shall be indebted to the town in which the children 
reside, under the provisions of § 226, the expense ascertained 
as provided in this section shall be deducted from the amount 
of said indebtedness, and only the remainder shall be due to 
the town in which said children reside. 

G 8 seems § 228 In all cases when a school in any district has been 

18^1^ or shall be kept during a portion of the school year, but not 

Forfeitures may ^ccordiug to law, or whcu for any other cause there has been 

be remitted or sliall be a forfeiture of moneys accruing from the school 
fund or annual state appropriation that would otherwise have 
been paid to any town or school district, the secretary of the 
state board of education shall, on application from such town 
or school district, examine into the facts of the case, and de- 
cide, according to equity, on the right of the applicants to 
receive the money so forfeited ; and if he decides in favor of 
such right, and so certifies to the comptroller, the same shall 
be paid as if no forfeiture had occurred. 

§ 229 Every school visitor or member of a town school 

o^^onnw. committee who shall fraudulently make or join in making any 

false certificate, by reason of which money shall be drawn from 

certmc^aTe" the treasury of the state, shall be fined not more than sixty 
dollars. 

1 §§ 109 133 



G S sec 2279 

1856 
Rev 1888 §2240 

Fraudulent 



69 

Chapter XVII 
Town Deposit Fund 

General Statutes, Chapter 121, page 506 

§ 230 The money received from the United States in GSsecmi 
pursuance of the act of congress approved June 23, 1836, shall RevSgine 
remain on deposit with the several towns on the terms here- Town deposit 
inafter specified. 

§ 231 When any new town shall be constituted, such Gs seems 
money shall be divided between it and the towns of which it Rev^§i87 
was formed, agreeably to the last census of the United States ; Town deposit 
and when the proportion of each of said towns cannot be de- appwtioned on 
termined by reference to said census, it shall be determined ^wn^"^^^ 
by a census to be taken, as soon as may be, by some suitable 
person appointed for that purpose by the treasurer of the 
state, on application of either of such towns, unless they shall 
agree upon the mode of division. 

§ 232 Every town shall keep its share of the said money gs seems 
as a deposit in trust for the state, and account for the same Rev?&8?i88 
when called for ; and until called for, shall appropriate the conditions of 
entire income thereof, annually, for the support of public ^^p°^"^ 
schools therein. 

§ 233 The treasurer of each town, or such person as the (^Sseci92u 
town shall appoint,^ shall have the custody of said fund and Revi888§i89 
be the treasurer thereof; and shall keep separate accounts re- custodian of 
lating to the fund and exhibit at each annual town meeting an ac- " ' 
count showing the amount of the fund, how invested, the 
amount of its income, to whom paid, for what, and the balance 
remaining in the treasury ; which account shall be recorded and 
kept on file by the town clerk ; and no payments shall be made 
from the fund except on orders drawn by the agent appointed 
by the town, specifying whether they are to be paid from the 
principal or income of the fund. 

§ 234 Such treasurer shall, immediately after his appoint- <5''5s^cjs^5 
ment, execute a bond to the town, with surety to the acceptance Revises §190 
of the selectmen, for the faithful execution of his office as Treasurer to 

^ n . . , ^ , give bond and 

treasurer of the fund ; and any loss or deficiency m the fund report losses 
belonging to such town, and any illegal or improper manage- 
ment or application of its income, which shall come to his 
knowledge, he shall immediately report to the comptroller, and 
shall forfeit to the state twenty dollars for every week that he 
shall neglect to make such report. 

§ 235 The town deposit fund in each town shall be GSsecim 
managed by such agents^ as the town shall appoint, who shall RevSs pti 

^§87 2 §87 



70 



Management of 
town deposit 
fund 



GS sec 1927 
1836 1874 
Eev 1888 §192 
Deficiency in 
fund to be 
made good 

O S sec 1928 
1846 1885 
Rev 1888 §193 



Proceedings 
when a town 
declines to 
receive fund 



G S sec 1929 
1836 1874 
Rev 1888 §194 

On division of 
a town new 
receipts 
may be taken 

G S sec 19S0 
1843 1874 
Rev 1888 §195 

Release or 
assignment 
of security 



lend it on notes payable to the town, secured by mortgage of 
real estate, in value double the amount of the sum loaned, and 
no expense shall be deducted from the principal of the fund; 
and when any loan shall be paid in full, the treasurer of the 
town where the loan was made may release the mortgaged 
premises ; and any town may authorize its managers to invest 
said fund, or any part thereof, in the stock of any bank in this 
state, in the bonds or securities of any city, town, or borough 
in this state, or in the bonds, loans, or securities of this state 
or of the United States. 

§ 236 Each town shall make good any deficiency which 
may occur in said fund, and on failure to make such deficiency 
good within one year after it shall occur, shall forfeit to the 
state a sum equal to the amount thereof. 

§ 237 If any town shall not agree to receive its propor- 
tion of said money on the terms specified in this chapter, the 
treasurer of the state may, at the expense of said town, loan 
the same on note payable to the state, secured by mortgage of 
real estate, in value at least double the amount of the loan, or 
he may deposit the same in any bank in this state, at interest ; 
and any interest which he may receive for the said loans or 
deposits shall be paid by said treasurer to the treasurer of 
such town, to be by it appropriated for the support of schools 
annually, and it shall be liable for its due application in the 
same manner as if it had agreed to receive its proportion of the 
principal. 

§ 238 In case of the division of any town, and the appor- 
tionment of its town deposit fund, the treasurer of the state 
may exchange the receipt of such town for new receipts for 
the same from the agents of the towns so constituted by such 
division. 

§ 239 The treasurers of the several towns, upon the re- 
ceipt of the amount of any loan made from the town deposit 
fund, may, with the assent of the managers of the fund for 
such town, execute an assignment or release of any security 
held for such loan, and convey to the assignee or releasee the 
legal title to the premises mortgaged to secure the payment of 
such loan. 



G8secUG2U 

1869 
Rev 1888 §§143 

144 
1893 ch 178 §1 



Chapter XVIII 
Public Libraries 

General Statutes, Chapter 262, page 1104 

§ 240 Any town, borough, or city may establish a public 
library, the use of which, under proper regulations, shall be 
free to its inhabitants, and may expend such sum of money as 



71 

may be necessary to provide and furnish suitable rooms or a Estabiibhment 
suitable building for the library so established, or for a pre- 
viously existing public library, the use of which is free to its 
inhabitants. 

§ 241 Any town, borough, or city, may annually expend G8sechG25 
such sum of money as shall be necessary for the proper main- i893chi78§2 
tenance and increase of a free public library within its limits. ^PP^op^'iation 
Any town shall have power at any meeting, duly called for 
the purpose, to fix by a proper by-law, the amount which shall 
be annually expended for the public library therein. The 
treasurer of such town shall thereafter annuahy pay, upon the 
order of the officer designated by the directors or trustees 
managing its pubUc hbrary, the bills incurred for the main- 
tenance and increase of said library, not exceeding in the 
aggregate the sum specified in said by-law. The town clerk 
may deposit in a pubhc library within his town any books, 
other than records, placed by law or otherwise in his custody. 

§ 242 Any town, borough, or city may receive, hold, GSsecus^G 
and manage any devise, bequest, or gift for the establishment, RevSs p44 
increase, or maintenance of a public library within its limits.^ i893chi78§3 

§ 243 In the absence of any other lawful provision for q^^^^i^q^o 
the management of a public library in any town or borough, i893chi78§4 
the said town or borough shall elect a board of directors^ who Directors 
shall manage said library. Said board may, from time to time, 
make by-laws not inconsistent with the laws of this state for 
its own government and may adopt rules controlling the use 
of the library and the administration of its affairs. Said board 
shall have the exclusive right to expend according to its best 
judgment all money appropriated by the town or borough for 
the library, and shall have control of the hbrary grounds, 
buildings, and rooms. 

§ 244 The first election of directors may take place at GSsechoso 
any meeting of the town or borough called for that purpose. ^^^ggsV^^ 
It shall first be determined by a by-law of the town, to be Directors^ 
adopted at this meeting, what the number of directors con- ^^^^t^^^^^ 
stituting said board shall be, such number to be in all cases 
one divisible by three.^ One-third of this number shall then 
be elected^ by ballot to hold office until the next annual meet- 
ing, one-third until the second annual meeting, and one-third 
until the third annual meeting thereafter. At each subsequent 
annual meeting of said town or borough, one-third of the 
directors shall be elected by ballot to hold office for three 

^ Devise to city, with discretionary power as to its application, sustained, 
although at the time of testator's death there was no public library 60 Conn 32 
2 I 87 3 See § 87 4 Plurality elects ^ 88 



72 



O S sec h631 
1893 ch 178 

l§ 7 8 
1895 ch 24 
1901 ch 73 

Connecticut 
public library 
committee ; 
expense 



GSsec k6S2 

1893 ch 178 ^9 

1895 ch 294 

Committee; 
advice; report 



1903 ch 142 §1 

Visitation and 
inspection of 
free public 
libraries 



Loan libraries 



G Ssec U635 
1893chl78§12 
Board of 
directors; 
women 
eligible 
G S sec k636 
1895 ch 284 

Keports by 
libraries 



G S sec 1*633 
1893 ch 178 §10 
State grant to 
town libraries 



GSsec hGS7 
1895 ch 284 



years. No director of a public library so elected shall receive 
compensation for any services rendered as director. 

§ 245 The state board of education shall annually ap- 
point five persons who shall be known as the "Connecticut 
public Hbrary committee." No member of said committee 
shall receive any compensation for his services as such mem- 
ber, but the committee may expend a sum not exceeding 
seven hundred and fifty dollars for clerical assistance and 
incidental and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge 
of its duties. 

§ 246 The librarian or director of any public library and 
the teachers of any pubHc school may ask said committee 
for advice and assistance in regard to the selection, purchase, 
and cataloguing of books, and any other matters pertaining 
to the maintenance or administration of the library, and the 
committee shall give advice and assistance in regard to said 
matters so far as it shall find it practicable to do so. The com- 
mittee shall annually report its doings to the governor. 

§ 247 The Connecticut public library committee shall 
give to communities advice and assistance in the organization, 
establishment, and administration of free public libraries, and 
shall extend to all free public libraries aid in selecting and 
cataloguing books and in library management, and may for 
the purposes of this act visit and inspect libraries organized 
under the provisions of § 250, and may suggest improvements 
in said libraries. Said committee is authorized to purchase 
and arrange books and pictures to be loaned to such public 
libraries, schools, associations, and individuals as the com- 
mittee may select. 

§ 248 No person shall be ineligible by reason of sex to 
serve on the board of directors of any public library, or on the 
Connecticut public library committee. 

§ 249 The libraries established under the provisions of 
this chapter, and any free public library receiving a state appro- 
priation, shall annually make a report to the Connecticut 
public library committee. 

§ 250 If any town having no free public library shall estab- 
lish a free public library and shall provide for the care, cus- 
tody, and distribution of books and for the future maintenance 
and increase of such library in a manner satisfactory to said 
library committee, said committee may expend for books to 
be selected by the said committee a sum not to exceed the 
amount expended by the said town for the establishment of 
such library and not to exceed two hundred dollars. 

§ 251 In towns whose grand list exceeds six hundred 



73 

thousand dollars, the Connecticut public library committee Expenditure 
may expend annually, for books selected by it for any such 
library, a sum not to exceed the amount annually appro- 
priated and expended by the town for the increase of said 
library. In towns whose grand list does not exceed six 
hundred thousand dollars, said committee may expend an- 
nually, for books selected by it for any such library, a sum not 
to exceed the amount annually appropriated and expended 
from any source for the increase of such library. The ex- 
penditure by said committee shall not exceed the sum of one 
hundred dollars, annually, for any library. 

§ 252 For the purposes of carrying out the provisions 190.3 ch 142 §2 
of § 247, there shall be annually appropriated two thousand state grant 
dollars. The treasurer of the state shall pay the bills in- 
curred under this act upon the order of the state board of 
education. Said board shall keep and semi-annually render 
to the comptroller an account of all money expended under 
this act and the comptroller shall audit said account. 

§ 253 The treasurer of the state shall pay the bills in- GSsecU6?>u 
curred under the provisions of law for free libraries, upon the i893chi78§ii 

iri •r-.'i ^*^^^ treasurer 

order of the secretary of the state board of education. Said topaywiis 
board shall keep an account of all moneys expended under 
§§ 245 and 250, and the comptroller shall annually audit said 
account. The provisions of §§ 26 and 28 of the general stat- 
utes shall not apply to the payment of money expended 
under §§ 245 and 250. 

Chapter XIX 
Elections and Electors 

Provisions relating to education and schools ' 

General Statutes, Chapter 104, page 445 q g ^^^ j^^j^g 

§ 254 Votes cast for electors of president and vice-presi- ^^-^^ ^^1.^^^^^'*' 
dent, governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary, treasurer, 5l|^^^%^f. 
comptroller, attorney-general, representative at large, repre- i895ch267|6 
sentative in congress, senator, sheriff, and judge of probate, i899ch207|2 
or so many thereof as shall be voted for at one an^ the same officers on one 
election, shall be on one ballot, which ballot shall be eight 
inches long by five inches wide. Votes cast for representa- 
tives, justices of the peace, town, city, borough, and school 
officers, or so many thereof as shall be voted for at one and the 
same election, shall be on one ballot, which ballot shall be six 
inches long by five and one-half inches wide. GSseciem 

§ 255 Each elector may place in the envelope^ received ^^"^ ^^""^ ^^~^ 

' For provision relating to corrupt practices see Gen Stat § 1694 
'^ Envelope not required when voting on consolidation of school districts 
§ 174 



74 



Rev 1888 §238 
1889 ch 247 

§§7 9 
1895 ch 267 

§§7 9 
1897 ch 213 

§§r9 

1899 ch 207 §3 

What ballots 
in one envelope; 
when not to be 
counted 



G Ssec IS 17 

1801 
Eev 1888 §52 
Power of 
moderator to 
suppress 
disorder 



G S sec 1799 
1893 ch 266 §2 

What women 
may vote for 
school officers 

GS sec 1616 
1895 ch 343 
1897 ch 114 

Separate list of 
women ''to be 
made " 



by him one ballot^ for electors of president and vice-president, 
governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary, treasurer, comp- 
troller, attorney-general, representative at large, representa- 
tive in congress, senator, sheriff, and judge of probate, or so 
many thereof as shall be voted for at one and the same elec- 
tion, and one ballot for representative or representatives, as 
the case may be, justices of the peace, town, city, borough, 
and school officers, or so many thereof as shall be voted for at 
one and the same election, and one vote for the approval or 
disapproval of any constitutional amendment submitted for 
ratification at said election ; and one vote for or against any 
educational purpose under the special laws of this stated 

§ 256 The moderator of any town meeting, annual or 
special, and of any meeting of any society or other community 
lawfully assembled, may, when any disorder arises in the meet- 
ing, and the offender shall refuse to submit to his lawful au- 
thority, order any proper officer to take him into custody, and, 
if necessary, to remove him from such meeting until he shall 
conform to order, or, if need be, until such meeting shall be 
closed, and thereupon such officer shall have power to com- 
mand all necessary assistance, and any person refusing to assist 
when commanded shall be liable to the same penalties as for re- 
fusing to assist sheriffs and constables in the execution of their 
offices ; but no person commanded to assist shall be deprived 
of his right to act in the meeting, nor shall the offender be so 
deprived any longer than he refuses to conform to order.^ 

§ 257 Those women whose names appear upon the regis- 
try list of women voters shall be entitled to vote in any meet- 
ing held for choosing school offfcers or upon any matter re- 
lating to education or to schools. 

§ 258 The registrars of every town shall also enter upon 
a separate list under the title " women's list, to be made," the 
names of those w^omen by whom or in whose behalf the claim 
is made to either registrar that they will be entitled to vote for 
school officers and on questions relating to education or to 
schools, and all applications " to be made " in favor of women, 
shall be at the same times and in the same form and set forth 
the same information as applications for men to be made elect- 
ors, and such claims and applications shall be received by said 
registrars and heard and determined by the town clerk and 

1 Gen Stat § 1632 

- Ballots marked by folding or being torn ; person named not being candi- 
date ; double pasters; enclosure in envelope; defective printing; ballots for 
other voting places 62 Conn 261 

^ The enforcement of this provision requires no issue of process 65 
Conn 30 



75 

selectmen at the same time that claims and applications by 
men to be made electors are received, heard, and determined. 

§ 259 Every woman who shall have attained the age of gs sec 1629 
twenty-one years, who shall be a citizen of this state or of the {ggrchm^^ 
United States, and who will have resided in the state one year women voters 
and in the tow^n six months, and can read the English language, 
shall, after having been duly admitted, have the right to vote 
for any officer of schools and upon any question relating to 
education or to schools. 

§ 260 The board of selectmen and town clerk shall at ossecieso 
any meeting held by them for the admission of electors, ex- igg^^hm 
amine the qualifications of those women by whom or in whose women to 
behalf application has been made to be admitted as voters for jjgQaUy' ^^^^^' 
school officers and upon any question relating to education or 
to schools, and whose names appear on the " women's list — to 
be made," and shall cause the person in whose favor such 
application is made to testify under oath to her qualifications 
to be made such voter, and shall deliver to the town clerk a 
certified list in writing of all women who are found to possess 
the requisite qualifications to be made such voters, which said 
list shall be kept by said town clerk as an official list ; and the 
registrars mxay restore to said list the name of any woman, 
subject to the same restrictions and conditions as apply to 
restoration of names to the list of electors. Every woman 
who shall testify falsely as to her qualifications to be made a 
voter, or knowingly vote illegally at any town, school, or dis- 
trict meeting, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or im- 
prisoned not more than thirty days. 

§ 261 Whenever registry lists shall be used by those vot- as sec mi 
ing in school district meetings, the registrars of voters of the i893ch266 
town in which such districts are situated, shall prepare sepa- voSiJifsts 
rate lists of the names of those women residing in such school 
districts, or the voting districts of any such school districts, 
that have been admitted as voters. 

§ 262 At all elections at which women are by law entitled GSsecieei 
to vote there shall be provided separate ballots containing, in llgschsofgie 
addition to the name of the party issuing the same, only the Schl^or^gs 
names of candidates and titles of officers for which women Baiiotbosfor 
are entitled to vote, and there shall be provided at such elec- Sots^ 
tions a separate ballot box, distinctly marked " for women's 
ballots," in which shall be deposited all ballots cast by women. 



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GSsec21U2 
1893ch265§§l 



Sanitary 
condition of 
schoolhouse 



G S sec nhS 
1893 ch 265 §3 

Unfsanitary 
conditions ; 
proceedings 
to remedy 



GSsec21UU 
1893ch265§§4 
5 

Schoolhouses 
defined 



G S sec 2161 
1878 1882 
Rev 1888 §2137 
1899 ch 54 §1 

Vaccination of 
school children 



Chapter XX 
Health, Sanitation, and Safety 

General Statutes, Chapter 132, page 563. 

§ 263 Every schoolhouse shall be kept in a cleanly state 
and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy, or other 
nuisance, and shall be provided with a sufficient number of 
proper water closets, earth closets, or privies, for the use of 
the pupils attending such schoolhouse, and shall be properly 
ventilated. 

§ 264 Whenever it shall be found by the state board of 
education, or by the board of school visitors, or by a member 
of the town school committee of the town in which any school- 
house is located, that further or different sanitary provisions 
or means of lighting or ventilating are required in any school- 
house, and that the same can be provided without unreason- 
able expense, either of said boards, or such member of the 
town school committee may recommend to the person or au- 
thority in charge of or controlling such schoolhouse such 
changes in the ventilation, lighting, or sanitary arrangements 
of such schoolhouse as they may deem necessary. In case 
such changes be not made substantially as recommended within 
two weeks from the date of notice thereof such board or mem- 
ber of the committee may make complaint to the proper health 
authority of the community in which such schoolhouse is situ- 
ated, which said authority shall, after notice to and hearing 
of the parties interested, order such changes made in the light- 
ing, ventilation, or sanitary arrangements of such schoolhouse 
as it may deem necessary and proper. 

§ 265 The word schoolhouse as used in §§ 263 and 264 
shall include any building or premises in which instruction 
is afforded to not less than ten pupils at one time. Every 
violation of any provision of §§ 263 or 264 shall be punished 
by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprison- 
ment for not more than six months, or both.^ 

§ 266 The board of school visitors, town school com- 
mittee, or board of education, may require every child to be 
vaccinated before being permitted to attend a public school 
under its jurisdiction. If the parents or guardians of any 
children are unable to pay for such vaccination, the expense 
thereof shall, on the recommendation of said board or com- 
mittee, be paid by the town. Said board or committee may 
exclude from any school under its supervision all children 
under five years of age whenever in its judgment the interest 
of such school will be thereby promoted. 

^ The words "public buildings " include schoolhouse Gen Stat § i 



77 

§ 267 In all cities the common council, in all boroughs GSsec2607 
the warden and burgesses, and in all towns and parts of a J,^^^ ,^4^i„i^I^ 

.<...•• (. . > ,, . Rev 1888 §2623 

town not witnm the limits oi a city or borough the select- gafeexittobe 
men, shall require that all churches, schoolhouses, and public provided for 
halls that are used for lectures, amusements, exhibitions, or tuUdinge 
assemblages of people, shall be provided with ample facilities 
for safe and speedy entrance and exit in case of necessity, be 
arranged so as to promote the comfort and safety of persons 
visiting them, and be closed till such requirements are com- 
plied with ; and any city, borough, or town may make suitable 
by-laws regarding the same. 

§ 268 Every story above the first story of a building used qs sec 2628 
as a schoolhouse, orphan asylum, insane asylum, reformatory, issi isss 
opera house, hall for public assemblies, boarding house ac- i889chi54'' 
commodating more than twelve persons, or tenement house "^i895^ch2M 
occupied by more than five families, shall be provided with Fire escapes to 
more than one way of egress, by stairways on the inside or ^^ ^™^^ ^ 
fire escapes on the outside of such building. Said stairways 
and fire escapes shall, at all times, be kept free from obstruc- 
tion and shall be accessible from each room in every story 
above the first story. 

§ 269 No barbed wire shall be used in the construction of GSsecuoro 
fences, or retained upon existing fences, connected with or ^^S-^^^^ 
enclosing the grounds of any public school or public building. ^^^^ ^^ barbed 
Every person who shall violate any provision of this section wire prohibited 
shall be fined not rrfore than one hundred dollars. 

§ 270 The county health officer shall cause the execution ossec25i8 
of the laws relating to public health and the prevention and SchlSp 
abatement of nuisances dangerous to public health, and of the 1^97 ch 175 
laws relating to the registration of vital statistics, and co- office? powers 
operate with and supervise the doings of town, city, and bor- and duties 
ough health officers, and boards of health, within his county. 
He shall have all the powers of a grand juror in each of the 
several towns within his county, and all the powers of the 
prosecuting officer of each city, borough, town, or police court 
within his county in prosecutions for violations of the laws 
concerning contagious diseases and pubHc health, nuisances 
injurious to health or life, for violations of by-laws or or- 
dinances relating to public health and contagious diseases 
adopted by a city or borough, for the violation of the orders 
of town, city, or borough health officers, for the prevention or 
removal of nuisances dangerous to public health, for violations 
of the laws relating to the registration of vital statistics, to the 
practice of medicine, surgery, or midwifery, and of the laws 
relating to the sale of poisons and antitoxine. County health 



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G S sec S521 
1805 1882 
Rev 1888 §2588 
1803 ch 248 §6 

See §2531 

Appointment 
and jurisdiction 
of town health 
officers 



officers may sign complaints, in any town, city, or borough in 
the county, to run into the same or any other town, city, or 
borough in the county. 

§ 271 The county health officer shall, in writing, appoint 
for each town some discreet person, learned in medical and 
sanitary science, to be health officer for said town, except in 
towns containing a city or borough whose limits are coter- 
minous with the limits of said town. In each town, except in 
towns having a city or borough within their limits, said town 
health officer shall have and exercise all the powers necessary 
and proper for preserving the public health and preventing* 
the spread of diseases ; and in towns within which there exists 
a city or borough the limits of which are not coterminous 
with the limits of such town such town health officer shall 
exercise the powers and duties of his office only in such part 
of said town as is outside the limits of said city or borough. 
Each town health officer, except when appointed to fill a 
vacancy, shall hold his office for four years from and after the 
first Monday of October and until his successor is appointed 
and sworn, unless sooner removed.^ 



G S sec ^788 

1883 

Rev 1888 §3655 

1897 ch 210 

1899 ch 69 

1901 ch 184 §1 

For what 

children 

intended 



G S sec 2195 
18831885 



Chapter XXI 
Care and Reformation of Children 

Temporary County Homes. 

§ 272 For the better protection of children between the 
ages of four and eighteen years, of the classes hereinafter de- 
scribed, to wit: waifs, strays, children in charge of overseers 
of the poor, children of prisoners, drunkards, or paupers,, and 
others committed to hospitals, almshouses, or workhouses, and 
all children within said ages, deserted, neglected, cruelly treated, 
or dependent, or living in any disorderly house, or house re- 
puted to be a house of ill-fame or assignation, there shall be 
provided in each county one or more places of refuge to be 
known as temporary homes. No such home shall be located 
within one-half mile of any penal or pauper institution ; and 
no pauper or convict shall be permitted to live or labor therein. 
No such home shall be used as a permanent residence for any 
child, but for its temporary protection, for so long a time only 
as shall be absolutely necessary for the placing of the child in a 
well selected family home. 

§ 273 Any court of probate, any city, police, borough, or 
town court may, upon proceedings instituted in the manner 



' Provisions of statute de powers of health officers held constitutional 
Conn 99-101^ 



51 



79 



provided for the commitment of children to the industrial or re- Rev 1888 §3658 

1889 ch''28 
1897 ch 210 



form schools of the state, or upon the petition of the Connecti- i^^^ch 



cut humane society or the state board of charities, commit any i9{fi^ci?84§§2 
child belonging to the classes enumerated in § 272 to any «^;^ ^"^ 
temporary home that may have been established until such o?ne™ieSed*^ 
male child shall be sixteen years of age and until such female ^^ilfeg®"^^ 
child shall be eighteen years of age, unless sooner discharged 
by the board of management of the temporary home in the 
county in which such child is committed. Said board may 
place any such child in any private family or in any chartered 
orphan asylum or children's home in this state wherein such 
child will be accepted for the period for which such child was 
committed to such temporary home or for any portion thereof. 
The authority committing any child shall, within thirty days 
after such commitment, transmit a certified copy of the items 
of the costs of such proceedings to the clerk of the superior 
court for the county in which the trial or hearing was had, 
and such costs shall be paid as costs are paid in criminal cases 
coming to the superior court from an inferior court. The ex- 
penses for the support of such children so committed shall be 
paid in the same manner as the expenses for the support of 
children committed to the Connecticut industrial school for 
girls and the Connecticut school for boys. No payment shall 
be made to any asylum or children's home for or on account 
of any girl after she shall have arrived at the age of sixteen 
years.^ 

Connecticut School for Boys 
§ 274 No court or justice of the peace shall commit any osjec^sts^ 
child under sixteen years of age as vicious, truant, or incor- -^^^Jg^g^i^sf^^ 
rigible, to any jail, almshouse, or workhouse. When any boy -^YsJa^h^f?^ 
under the age of sixteen years shall be convicted of any crime i90i ch i84 §2 
or misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment, other o°JJ)™s*Jo^°^^i^ 
than imprisonment for life, the court or justice of the peace, as school 
the case may be, may commit him to the Connecticut school for 
boys, to remain until he shall arrive at the age of twenty-one 
years unless sooner discharged by the board of trustees. The 
judges of the criminal and police courts of the state, and jus- 
tices of the peace, may commit to the Connecticut school for 
boys : first, any boy under sixteen years of age, who may be 
liable to punishment by imprisonment under any existing law 
of the state, or any law that may be enacted and in force in the 
state ; second, with the consent of his parent or guardian, any 
boy under sixteen years of age, against whom any charge of 

' Board not bound to permit withdrawal of child under any circumstances 
61 Conn 268 



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G S sec 282h 
1901 ch 56 
1903 ch 25 
When boy 
under ten to be 
committed to 
the school 
GS sec 2825 
1901 ch 57 

United States 
courts may 
commit boys 



G S sec 2826 
1851 1879 

Rev 1888 §3621) 
1893 ch 92 

Boys to remain 
at school, how 
long 



G S sec 2856 

1886 
Rev 1888 §3638 

To be a school 
district 



G S nee 2837 



Rev 1888 §3639 
1893 ch 164 §1 



committing any crime or misdemeanor shall have been made, 
the punishment of which, on conviction, would be confinement 
in jail or prison ; third, any boy under sixteen years of age who 
is destitute of a suitable home and adequate means of obtain- 
ing an honest living, and who is in danger of being brought up, 
or is brought up, to lead an idle or vicious life ; fourth, any 
boy under sixteen years of age, who is incorrigible, or habitu- 
ally disregards the commands of his father or mother, or guar- 
dian, or leads a vagrant life, or resorts to immoral places or 
practices, or neglects or refuses to perform labor suitable to 
his years and condition, or to attend school.^ 

§ 275 No boy under ten years of age shall be committed 
to the Connecticut school for boys except upon conviction of 
an offense for which the punishment is imprisonment in the 
state prison or in a county jail. 

§ 276 The Connecticut school for boys may be used under 
the authority of the United States for the confinement of any 
boy over the age of ten years and under the age of sixteen 
years, convicted in the United States court for the district of 
Connecticut of any crime or misdemeanor punishable by fine 
or imprisonment, other than imprisonment for life, who shall 
be committed to said school until he shall arrive at the age of 
twenty-one years, unless sooner discharged by the board of 
trustees of said school ; but the expense of supporting and con- 
fining any boy so committed shall be paid by the United States. 

§ 277 Every boy sent to the Connecticut school for boys 
shall remain until he is twenty-one years of age, unless sooner 
discharged or bound as an apprentice ; but no boy shall be re- 
tained after the superintendent shall have reported him fully 
reformed. 

Connecticut Industrial School for Girls 

§ 278 The Connecticut industrial school for girls shall, 
so long as it remains an incorporated institution of this state 
and maintains a school for the benefit of children connected 
therewith, be a separate school district, with a territorial limit 
including the grounds and buildings occupied by the inmates of 
said institution as homes. All other territory belonging to said 
institution shall be a part of the district to which the same 
territory belonged before the industrial school for girls was es- 
tablished. 

§ 279 The directors of the Connecticut industrial school 
for girls shall be the school committee of said district, and shall 
possess all the powers and be subject to all the duties within 

^ Statute constitutional Court may take up the matter without formal 
complaint 51 Conn 472 



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said district that are possessed by the school visitors in the Directors to 
several towns. They may appoint an acting school visitor in committee 
said district, who shall possess wathin said district all the 
powers and be subject to all the duties of similar officers ap- 
pointed by school visitors. The authority of the board of 
school visitors of the town in which said district is situated 
shall extend only to the remaining portion of said town, and 
their returns and certificates shall include only the children 
of such remaining portion. 

§ 280 The treasurer of the Connecticut industrial school ossecesss 
for girls shall draw an order each year in favor of said dis- Revi888%640 
trict on the treasurer of said town, for the proportionate 1893 ch i64 §•,> 
amount to which said district may be entitled of all moneys fJr^ga^itJ^gchdoi 
appropriated by law for the benefit, support, and encourage- 
ment of public schools, as is provided in respect to towns. 

§ 281 The parent or guardian of any girl between the osseasso 
ages of eight and sixteen years, or a selectman or grand juror jses i870 1872 
or other informing officer of the town where she may be found, Revi888§364i 
may present a written complaint to the judge of the court of 
probate for the district in which such town is, or to any justice ^^i^^li^^ 
of the peace of such town, or to the judge of the police court ^c^ooi 
of any city where she may be found, alleging that she has com- 
mitted any offense within the final jurisdiction of a justice of 
the peace, or is rude, stubborn, and unruly, or is an habitual 
truant from school, or is the child of a person who has had 
town relief, and is by such parent suffered to misspend her 
time, and to be without any honest calling, or is so ill provided 
for by her parents as to be exposed to want, or is exposed 
to want with none to care for her, or is leading an idle, vagrant, 
or vicious life, or is in manifest danger of falling into habits of 
vice, and praying that she may be sent to the Connecticut indus- 
trial school for girls, and such judge or justice of the peace shall 
thereupon, after notice to her and such other notice as he may 
deem proper, inquire into said complaint, and, on being satis- 
fied of the truth of the allegations therein, may order her to be 
committed to the guardianship and control of such school until 
she shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years, unless sooner 
lawfully discharged, and, if he finds that she has committed 
an offense punishable by imprisonment, other than imprison- 
ment for life, she may be sentenced to the Connecticut indus- 
trial school for girls, or judgment may be suspended, on such 
terms and for such time as he may prescribe ; and said authority 
may issue a warrant for the execution of such sentence ; but 
this chapter shall not be construed to deprive any girl of four- 



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O S sec 285U 
1889 ch 171, 
1893 ch 122 

Appeals from 
commitments to 
schools or 
county homes 



G 8 sec 2855 
1895 ch 71 

Fees for 
commitments 
to schools and 
county homes 



GS sec 2856 
1870 1883 
Rev 1888 §3643 
1899 ch 190 

Costs on 
commitment to 
schools or 
county homes 



teen years of age and upward from the privilege of choosing 
her own guardian with the approval of the court of probate, as 
provided by law. 

Appeals 

§ 282 An appeal shall lie from any judgment, order, or 
decree, committing any child to the Connecticut school for 
boys, to the Connecticut industrial school for girls, or to any 
county home for dependent or neglected children, to the 
next term of the criminal court of common pleas to be held 
within and for the county where such judgment is rendered; 
but in towns within the appellate jurisdiction in criminal 
cases of the district court of Waterbury, such appeal shall be 
taken to the next criminal term of said district court; and in 
cases not in the jurisdiction of such criminal court of common 
pleas or district court to the next criminal term of the superior 
court. Such appeal may be taken by any parent or guardian 
of the child so committed, or by the selectmen of the town in 
which such judgment is rendered, within twenty days there- 
after; and the appellant shall enter into a recognizance, with 
surety, to the state, conditioned to answer to the complaint 
and abide the order and judgment of the court thereon. Com- 
plaints under §§ 273, 274, and 281 shall, on appeal, be 
tried by a jury, and such child shall be produced in court, 
during trial and to receive final judgment, by the apellant or 
by the person or persons having such child in their possession 
or control. 

Fees 

§ 283 There shall be allowed in each case of commitment 
to the Connecticut school for boys, a temporary home, or the 
Connecticut industrial school for girls, the same fees for com- 
plaint and warrant, or order, that are allowed by law for com- 
plaints and warrants in criminal cases ; and there shall be 
allowed to the grand jurors or prosecuting officers attending 
such cases the same fees for travel and attendance as are 
allowed by law to grand jurors in criminal cases. 

Costs 
§ 284 The authority committing any boy to the Con- 
necticut school for boys, or committing any child to the 
home for dependent and neglected children in any county, or 
committing any girl to the Connecticut industrial school for 
girls, shall transmit a certified copy of the items of the costs 
on the complaint to the clerk of the superior court for the 
county in which the trial or hearing was had, within thirty 
days after the trial or hearing, and said costs shall be taxed 
and paid as costs are taxed and paid in criminal cases coming 
to the superior court from an inferior court. 



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School for Imbeciles 
§ 285 Whenever there shall be found in any town in this gs sec 2787 
state any pauper or indigent imbecile child, who would be Revi^§489 
benefited by being sent to the school for imbeciles at Lake- commitment 
ville, the selectmen of such town shall make application to and support of 

' i^A poor imbeciie 

the court of probate for the district in which such town is children 
situated for the admission of such child to said school, and if, 
upon inquiry, said court shall find that said child is a proper 
subject to be received into said school, it shall order said 
selectmen to take such child to said school, to be kept and 
supported for such length of time as said court may deem 
proper. Said selectmen shall not take or commit any such 
child to said school until the order of said court has been 
approved by the governor, and no child shall be received at 
said school to be supported in any manner by the state with- 
out the approval of the governor. There shall be taxed by 
the comptroller two dollars and fifty cents a week for each 
week such child shall remain at said school, and the principal 
of said school shall make his bill therefor quarterly, and pre- 
sent it to the governor, upon whose approval it shall be paid 
by the state treasurer, and the balance shall be paid by the 
parents or grandparents of said child, or, if the child is a 
pauper, by the town in which said child belongs. 



Chapter XXII 

Crimes 

Offenses against the Person 

§ 286 Every person who shall exhibit, use, employ, ap- as sec lies 
prentice, give awav, let out, or otherwise dispose of any child ^ ,i^c-.^.-r 

, 1 f ' ■. . . , . "^ Rev 1888 §1417 

under the age of twelve years, m or for the vocation, occupa- Unlawful 
tion, service, or purpose of rope or wire walking, dancing, exhibition or 
skating, bicycling, or peddling, or as a gymnast, contortionist, of child 
rider, or acrobat, in any place whatever ; or for or in any ob- 
scene, indecent, or immoral purpose, exhibition, or practice, 
whatsoever; or for or in any business, exhibition, or vocation, 
injurious to the health, or dangerous to the life or limb of 
such child ; or who shall cause, procure, or encourage any 
such child to engage therein, shall be fined not more than two 
hundred and fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than one 
year, or both. But nothing herein shall prevent the employ- 
ment of any such child as a singer or musician, in any church 
or school, or in learning or teaching the science or practice 
of music. 



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G S sec 1169 

1832 

Rev 1888 §1423 

1899 ch 129 

Seegl 

Injury to public 
buildiugs 
furniture and 
voting booths 

GS sec 117k 

1872 

Rev 1888 §1428 

1889 ch 104 

Wilful injury to 
property of 
public library 



Oifenses against Public Property 

§ 287 Every person who shall wilfully injure any public 
building,^ or who shall wilfully injure or carry away any stove, 
stove-pipe, or furniture, in and belonging to any such build- 
ing, or who shall wilfully deface or injure a voting booth or 
compartment, shall be fined not more than one hundred 
dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.^ 

§ 288 Every person who shall wilfully write upon, injure, 
or destroy any book, plate, picture, engraving, or statue 
belonging to any library not exclusively owned by himself, 
shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, and every 
person who shall wilfully detain any book, paper, magazine, 
pamphlet, manuscript, or other property, belonging to any 
town, city, law, university, college, school, or other pubhc or 
incorporated, library, for thirty days after notice in writing 
from the librarian of such library, sent by mail or otherwise 
to the last known or registered place of residence of such 
person, after the expiration of the time during which, by the 
by-laws, rules, or regulations of such library, such book, 
paper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript, or other property 
may be kept, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. 
The notice herein required shall bear upon its face a copy of 
this section. 



G Ssec 1281 
1857-1870 1877 
Rev 1888 |1506 
Interrupting or 
disturbing 
schools or 
meetings 
G Ssec 1300 
1729 1801 
Rev 1888 §1520 

Disturbance 
of meetinecs 



Oifenses against Public Peace and Safety 
§ 289 Every person who shall wilfully interrupt or dis- 
turb any school,^ or any assembly of people met for a lawful 
purpose, shall be fined not more than seven dollars, or im- 
prisoned not more than thirty days, or both. 

§ 290 Every person who shall prevent a lawful meeting- 
of any community from proceeding, in an orderly and peace- 
able manner, to the appointment of a moderator, or shall 
abuse him, or a presiding officer of an electors' meeting, or 
interrupt either in the discharge of his duty, or, after he has 
commanded silence, shall speak in the meeting without his 
liberty, except to ask reasonable liberty to speak, shall be 
fined not more than fifty dollars. 



G S sec 1360 
1895 ch 216 



Offenses against Public Policy 
§ 291 Any person owning, keeping, or managing, in 
whole or in part, any dance house, concert saloon, roller skat- 

^ For definition of public building see Gen Stat § i 

^ Complaint must set out with particularity the "injury" 62 Conn 131 
"Wilfully" means in a spirit of wantonness or with an evil intent or guilty 
purpose 71 Conn 742 

^Singing school within terms of statute de interrupting "any public, 
private, or select school" 26 Conn 607; see also 28 Conn 232 



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ing rink, vaudeville theater, or museum having entertainments cwidren 
or variety shows connected with such museum, who shall improper 
allow any child under the age of sixteen years to be admitted ^™°®^™^'^ *^ 
to or remain in such place, unless such child is accompanied 
by its parent or guardian or some person authorized by such 
parent or guardian to attend such child, shall be fined not 
more than fifty dollars. 

§ 292 Every person who shall sell, give, or deliver to ossecmi 
any minor under sixteen years of age, tobacco in any form, i889ch8o 
shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for each offense. fomSorf '''"^ 

§ 293 Every person under sixteen years of age, who shall osseciseg 
smoke, or in any way use, in any pubHc street, place, or resort, issschso 
tobacco in any form whatsoever, shall be fined not more than S m^inws^^^^ 
seven dollars for each offense. 

§ 294 The proprietor or keeper of any public pool or gs sec 1395 
billiard room who shall permit any minor, under the age of j^evi^Ws 
sixteen years, to loiter in or about such room, or to play any 
game upon the table or tables therein, shall be fined not more mSf^ °^ 
than seven dollars. ^^^0^ 

§ 295 Every person who shall display the flag or emblem GSsec issc, 
of any foreign country upon the outside of any state, county, /^^^ ^^ ^ 
city, or town building, or pubHc schoolhouse, shall be fined fora^flags 
not more than one hundred dollars ; provided, that when any 
foreigner shall become a guest of the United States or of this 
state, upon the proclamation of the governor, the flag of the 
country of such guest may be displayed upon all pubHc build- 
ings except schoolhouses. 



Chapter XXIII 
Special Acts Relating to Towns or Districts 

Ansonia 
Special Acts of 1901, page 1046. 

§ 50 The territorial limits of said city as herein described shall here- 
after be, as they now are, one school district. 

§ 51 There shall be in said city a department of education, which 
shall have the care, management, and control of all the schools located 
in said city. <, 

§ 52 Said department shall be under the control of nine members, 
who shall be known as the board of education, and who shall be ap- 
pointed by the mayor in the manner described in section nine of this act. 

§ 53 The members of said board shall receive no compensation for 
their services, except the clerk thereof, who shall receive such com- 
pensation as said board may determine. 



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§ 54 Said board shall hold regular meetings every month and such 
special meetings from time to time as it may appoint or the mayor may 
call. Except in case of a tie vote the mayor shall have no vote in any 
meeting. 

§ 55 Said board shall, at its first meeting after its appointment 
and annually thereafter, elect from its number a president, who shall 
preside at all meetings of said board, except when the mayor shall be 
present. It shall also appoint from its number a clerk, who shall keep 
a record in a book for that purpose of all votes, acts, and transactions of 
said board, and shall perform any and all other duties imposed upon him 
by said board or by the provisions of this act. 

§ 56 Said board of education shall appoint a superintendent of 
schools and such number of assistants, principals, and teachers as it may 
decide to be necessary from titne to time, and it shall fix their salaries, 
prescribe the terms of their office, and their duties, in each case. The 
superintendent and teachers and other persons employed by the present 
board of education of said city shall retain their respective positions until 
their successors shall be chosen and duly qualified, and the rules and 
regulations now in force shall remain in full force until repealed or 
otherwise changed. 

§ 57 Said board of education shall have the entire charge and 
direction of all the public schools in said city and of the expenditure 
of all moneys appropriated for the support of the same, and shall keep 
all the school buildings and apparatus used therein in good condition 
and repair, and shall have and possess all the powers and be subject 
to all of the general duties of boards of education, school committees, and 
school visitors in this state, so far as the same are consistent with the 
provisions of this act. It shall make its own by-laws, define the duties of 
its officers and committees, and prescribe such rules and regulations for 
discipline in said public schools as are not inconsistent with the laws of 
this state or this act. 

§ 58 Said board of education shall, during the month of September 
in each year, submit to the board of aldermen of said city a detailed 
estimate of the expenses for the support of said schools during the en- 
suing year for which appropriation shall be made, specifying so far as 
possible the items of such expense. 

§ 59 Said board of education shall, annually, at the end of each 
fiscal year, transmit to the mayor a full report of its proceedings during 
said year, together with a statement showing the total amount of money 
received and expended for the support of said schools. 

§ 60 Said board of education shall monthly send to the city clerk 
a detailed statement of the expenses incurred during the preceding 
month, and thereupon said clerk shall draw an order upon the city 
treasurer to pay the amount of such expenses. ** 

Bridgeport 
Special Acts of 1889, Page 859 
§ 15 Said city shall be, as said town has been, a consolidated school 
district; and said city shall be substituted for and take the place of the 



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town of Bridgeport in all matters, meetings, duties, powers, obligations, 
and proceedings required by law of or by the town of Bridgeport in all 
matters concerning education, and shall act instead of said town; and 
all the powers, obligations, duties, rights, and property of said town of 
Bridgeport, whether as such town or as a consolidated school district, 
shall, with reference to education, be vested in and belong to said city 
of Bridgeport, which shall be and act to all intents and purposes as such 
consolidated school district. The election of officers heretofore chosen 
by the town of Bridgeport, a consolidated school district, as school 
officers known by the name of the " board of education," and being a 
school committee of said district, is hereby validated and confirmed 
with their doings, and such officers, being the present members of the 
school committee of such town and district, shall be and constitute 
the board of education of said city, and such officers shall hold their 
offices during their respective terms, and until their successors are 
chosen and qualified. At the meeting of the electors of said city, held 
electors, who shall hold office for the term of four years from the first 
on the first Monday of April, 1889, and annually thereafter, on the same 
day, there shall be chosen by ballot four members of said board of 
education for the term of three years from and after the first Monday 
of May next succeeding their election, and at said election no person 
shall vote for more than one-half the number of said members to be 
chosen. Should any vacancy occur before the expiration of the term 
of office of any member of said board, the remaining members of said 
board may appoint some person to fill such vacancy for the remainder 
of such term; and the members of said board of education shall be 
electors of said city. Said board of education shall have all the powers 
now^ or hereafter vested in and shall perform all the duties now or 
hereafter imposed by law on the school committee and selectmen of 
towns relative to schools and educational matters, and such board shall 
have the superintendence, management, and control of all matters con- 
cerning education, schools, and school property, and the power of fixing 
or changing the sites of schoolhouses in said city. The police commis- 
sioners of said city shall assign one or more patrolmen to act as truant 
officers in enforcing the statutes of this state in such cases made and 
provided. 

Special Act of 1893, Page 278 
Applies to the school appropriations of Bridgeport 

Derby 
Special Acts of 1893, Page 626 
§ 28 Said city shall be a consolidated school district ; and said city 
shall be substituted for and take the place of the town of Derby in all 
meetings, matters, duties, powers, obligations, and proceedings required 
by law of or by the town of Derby in all matters concerning educa- 
tion, and shall act instead of said town ; and all the powers, obligations, 
duties, rights, and property of the several school districts and said town 
. shall, with reference to education, be vested in and belong to said city, 
w^hich shall be and act to all intents and purposes as such consolidated 
school district. 



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There shall be in said city a board of education consisting of six 
Monday of January succeeding their election, and until their successors 
are duly elected and qualified. Each ward shall elect two members of 
the board of education, and in the second ward one member of said 
board shall be a resident of the present third school district of said 
town, and one member of said board shall be a resident of the present 
sixth school district; in the third ward one member of said board shall 
be a resident of the present first school district, and one member of said 
board shall be a resident of the present second school district. 

At the city election held on the first Monday of December, 1893, 
two members of the board of education shall be elected in each ward, 
but no person shall vote for more than one member of such board. Of 
the members elected at such election in each ward one shall be elected 
for three years, and one for one year from the first Monday of January, 
1894; the person in each ward having the greatest number of votes 
shall be elected for the three-year term, and the person in each ward 
having the next greatest number of votes shall be elected for the one- 
year term. At the city election held on the first Monday of December, 
1894, and biennially thereafter, one member of said board shall be 
elected from each ward for the term of four years. Vacancies in said 
board may be filled by the remaining members of said board until the 
same shall be filled by the voters of the ward in which such vacancy 
occurs, and in case it is filled by the voters of said ward, it shall only 
be for the unexpired term. Said board of education shall have all the 
powers now or hereafter vested in and shall perform all the duties now 
or hereafter imposed by law on the school committee and selectmen of 
towns, and the board of school visitors relative to schools and educa- 
tional matters, and such board shall have the superintendence, manage- 
ment, and control of all matters concerning education, schools, and 
school property in said city. 

The police commissioner of said city shall assign one or more police- 
men to act as truant officers in enforcing the statutes of this state in 
such cases provided. 

The membership of said board shall be divided equally between the 
two leading political parties, for the time being, and vacancies shall be 
filled from the same political party in which the vacancy exists. 

Said board of education shall, monthly, audit and approve all bills 
for the ordinary current expenses of its department, and report the 
same to the city clerk, who shall thereupon certify whether or not the 
appropriation is sufficient for the payment thereof; and if sufficient he 
shall draw his order for the same upon the city treasurer in favor of the 
persons entitled to payment thereof. Said board of education shall 
submit to the mayor on or before the first Monday of October in each 
year an estimate of the amount required for the support and main- 
tenance of the public schools in said city for the ensuing fiscal year. 

§ 29 All the property of the town of Derby, the borough of Bir- 
mingham, and the several school districts of said town and all rights of 
action and all securities of said municipalities and liens therefor, in- 
cluding liens for taxes or assessments due the town of Derby, the bor- 



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ough of Birmingham, and the several school districts in said town, are 
hereby transferred to and vested in said city of Derby, and the city of 
Derby is hereby made liable for all the debts, dues, bonds, and obliga- 
tions of every kind and nature of the town of Derby, the borough of 
Birmingham, and the several school districts of said town, that are now 
due or may hereafter become due, and shall execute, abide by, and 
perform all of the duties and obligations and have and exercise all the 
rights of said town of Derby, the borough of Birmingham, and the 
several school districts of said town; and any creditor or person whom- 
soever having any claim or right of action arising out of any contract, 
obligation, or otherwise against said town, said borough, or said school 
districts, may enforce the same against the said city of Derby in the 
same manner as if said claim, right, or obligation had originally accrued 
against said city of Derby. 

Manchester 
Special Acts of 1895, Page 408 
Special Acts of 1895, Page 221 

§ I. That the territory and inhabitants within the limits of the 
Ninth school district of Manchester are hereby made a body politic and 
corporate by the name of the Ninth School District of Manchester, and 
shall have all the powers and privileges of school districts under the 
laws of this state. 

§ 2 The first meeting of said district shall be held in June, 1895, 
and shall be called by the present district committee. At said meeting 
shall be elected, by ballot, a committee consisting of five persons, whose 
terms of office shall begin July 15, 1895. One of this number shall be 
elected to hold office until the next annual meeting, two until the 
second annual meeting, and the remaining two until the third annual 
meeting thereafter. At each annual meeting of the said district, which 
shall be held in June, so many members of said committee shall be 
elected by ballot to hold office for three years as, together with those pre- 
viously elected to hold office beyond said annual meeting, will make the 
whole number five ; and all members of said committee shall be residents 
of said district. In case of vacancy caused by resignation, death, or 
removal from the district, the remaining members of the committee 
shall fill the vacancy until the next annual meeting of said district, when 
a member shall be elected for the unexpired term. The chairman of 
the district committee shall give due notice of all meetings of said dis- 
trict, and may call a special meeting thereof at any time, and shall call 
one on the written request of twenty legal voters of the district. 

§ 3 Said committee shall examine, employ, and dismiss teachers, 
shall determine the number and qualifications of the scholars to be ad- 
mitted into each school, provided that all children of school age within 
said district shall be admitted to some one of the schools maintained 
by said district, may prescribe the course of study to be followed in the 
schools, and shall exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of 
district committees and school visitors. The authority of the school 
visitors of the town in which said district is situated shall extend only 
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§ 4 In the town of Manchester, in each year, before the third Tues- 
day of June, the school visitors shall elect three of their own number, 
and the committee chosen under the provisions of this resolution shall 
also elect three of their own number, and these six persons, together 
with the selectmen of said town, shall be the joint board of the town of 
Manchester in lieu of that provided for in section 2234 of the general 
statutes, and shall have the rights and perform the duties of said joint 
board prescribed in sections 2234, 2236, and 2237 of the general statutes. 



Naugatuck 
special Acts of 1895, Page 221 

§ 6 All burdens and all expenses imposed by law upon the town of 
Naugatuck, for the support of schools, shall hereafter be borne by 
said borough ; and said borough shall hereafter perform all the duties, 
and have and exercise all the rights, powers, and privileges of and 
relative to said purposes and matters by law conferred upon said town; 
and all laws of the state imposing such duties, burdens, and expenses, 
and conferring such rights, powers, and privileges upon said town, are 
hereby amended, so as to be hereafter applicable to, and operative upon, 
said borough, except as is herein otherwise provided. 

§ 23 There shall be in said borough a board of education consist- 
ing of six electors of said borough. Of the members elected at the 
annual electors' meeting of said borough in May, 1895, two shall be 
elected for the term of three years, two for the term of two years, and 
two for the term of one year, respectively, and at said election in May, 
1895, no person shall vote for more than one person for each of the 
respective terms last above named. At the borough election held on 
the first Monday of May, 1896, and annually thereafter, two members 
of said board of education shall be elected for the term of three years, 
but no person shall vote for more than one member of said board at 
any election after May, 1895, except for persons to fill vacancies. Va- 
cancies in said board may be filled by the remaining members of said 
board until the same shall be filled by the voters thereof, but only for the 
unexpired term. Said board of education shall have all the powers now 
or hereafter vested in, and shall perform all the duties now or hereafter 
imposed by law on the school visitors of the several towns in this state. 
The board of education and the warden and burgesses of said borough 
shall meet as a joint board on the second Tuesday in June in each year, 
and prepare a statement showing the estimated cost of each and all the 
public schools in the borough for the succeeding school year, and shall 
immediately thereafter notify the committees of the respective school dis- 
tricts of the several amounts so estimated; and said board of education 
shall present, at the annual borough meeting, a written or printed state- 
ment of the total cost of each and all of the public schools in said borough 
for the school year next preceding, and shall present an estimate of the 
cost of such schools for the current school year, at a meeting of the free- 
men of the borough held in July in each year; and said joint board shall 
hereafter do and perform all other acts and things that the school visit- 



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ors and the selectmen of said town of Naugatuck have heretofore done 
and performed, and as may be hereafter required by law to be done and 
performed, in the several towns by the board of school visitors and 
selectmen. 



New Haven 

Special Acts of 1899, Page 419 

Department of Education 

§ 104 There shall be in said city a department of education, which 
shall have the care and management of all the affairs of the New Haven 
city school district. After this act takes effect no meeting of the New 
Haven city school district shall be held for any purpose whatever. 

§ 105 Said department shall be under the control of a board of 
education of seven members who shall serve without compensation. The 
members of the board of education in office at the time this act takes 
effect shall hold their respective offices during the terms for which they 
were appointed unless sooner removed for cause according to the pro- 
visions of this act. On or before the first day of September, 1899, the 
mayor shall appoint two members of said board to serve four years 
from the third Monday in September next following; on or before the 
first day of September, 1900, the mayor shall appoint two members of 
said board to serve four years from the third Monday of September 
next following; on or before the first day of September, 1901, he shall 
appoint two members of said board to serve for four years from the 
third Monday of September next following; and on or before the first 
day of September, 1902, said Mayor shall appoint one member of said 
board to serve for a period of four years from the third Monday of 
September next following. And on or before the first day of September 
in every year thereafter the mayor shall fill the vacancies about to occur 
in said board by appointing one or two members, as the case may be, 
to serve for four years from the third Monday in September following 
their appointment. Not more than four members of the same political 
party shall at any one time be members of said board. The mayor shall 
fill all vacancies caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, by appoint- 
ment, for the unexpired term. If the mayor shall refuse, fail, or neglect 
for thirty days to make an appointment to fill any vacancy that may 
occur in said board, either by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, 
then the remaining members of said board may elect a suitable person 
to fill such vacancy. 

§ 106 The board of education shall appoint a superintendent of 
schools, and shall decide the number of principals, assistants, and 
teachers to be employed. It may appoint or employ a secretary, an in- 
spector of buildings, and such other officers and employes as may be 
necessary for the proper conduct of its business. It shall fix their terms 
of office and their salaries and prescribe their duties in each case, except 
as hereinafter provided. The officers and employes of the New Haven 
city school district, at the time of the taking effect of this act, shall 



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retain their respective offices until their successors shall be chosen, and 
the rules and regulations of the board of education then in existence, 
not inconsistent with this act, shall remain in full force until repealed. 
Said board shall have the entire charge and direction of all the public 
schools of said district, and of the expenditure of all moneys appro- 
priated for the support of the same, and shall have charge of the con- 
struction, management, and repair of all school buildings, and shall 
possess all other powers and be subject to all of the general duties of 
boards of education, school committees, and school visitors in this 
state, so far as the same are consistent with the terms of this act. It 
shall annually choose a president from among its own members, make 
its own by-laws, keep a journal of its proceedings, define the duties of 
its officers and committees, and prescribe such rules and regulations for 
discipline in said public schools as are not inconsistent with the laws of 
the state. 

§ 107 The superintendent of schools, if he has not held the office 
before, shall be appointed for one year, and if continued in office there- 
after may be appointed for a term of five years, and his salary shall not 
be reduced before the expiration of said term of five years. He shall 
not be removed during said term except by the vote of five members of 
the board of education. He shall appoint from those eligible under the 
rules of the board all principals, assistants, and teachers necessary to 
fill positions authorized by the board. He shall assign all principals, 
assistants, and teachers to their respective postions and reassign them 
or dismiss them from office at his discretion. He shall report at each 
meeting of the board all appointments, reassignments, and dismissals 
made by him since the previous meeting. Any appointment by the 
superintendent may be rejected by a vote of five members of the board. 
Any dismissal by the superintendent shall be final unless reversed by a 
vote of five members of the board at the meeting when such dismissal 
is reported. Notice of dismissal on the part of the superintendent shall 
be given to the principal, assistant, or teacher, by the superintendent in 
writing at least one week before the meeting of the board when the 
superintendent reports such dismissal. He shall, with the approval of 
the board of education, prescribe the courses of study in all the schools, 
but the text-books to be used in said courses shall be designated by the 
board. The superintendent shall annually, at a date to be fixed by the 
board, submit to the board a full report of the work and condition of 
the schools during the previous year, with recommendations for the 
ensuing year, which report, when accepted by the board, shall form 
part of its report to the mayor. He shall also report, each month during 
the school year, to the board in writing, any changes made in the several 
courses of study, and what principals, assistants, and teachers he has 
assigned, reassigned, or dismissed, and shall furnish such additional 
information regarding the condition of the schools and the efficiency 
of the teaching force as may be required by the board. Said monthly 
reports shall be entered in a suitable book provided for the purpose, and 
shall be kept as a part of the records of the department. 

§ 108 The treasurer of the city shall receive the amount of school 
money to which the district is entitled from the school moneys of the 



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state, from the town of New Haven, from state appropriations for 
school purposes, from gifts, and from the tax laid within the district for 
school purposes, which moneys shall be subject to the order of the 
board of education under such rules and regulations as the board of 
finance may from time to time establish. 

§ 109 The board of education shall submit to the board of finance 
of the city, at the time fixed by law for the submission of the estimates 
of the other departments of said city, a detailed estimate of its expenses 
for the next year for which the appropriations for city purposes are 
by law required to be made, specifying separately the sums needed for 
current and special expenses. 

§110 Said board of finance shall annually appropriate for the pur- 
poses of said district such amount as it may deem necessary for such 
purposes. Appropriations made for school sites and the building and 
furnishing of new schoolhouses or additions to old ones shall be known 
as the special school fund, and it shall be the duty of the board of 
education to cause accurate accounts to be kept of its receipts and 
expenditures, distinguishing between those of a general and those of a 
special character. The board of finance shall levy, for school purposes, 
a tax upon all property within said district as now or hereafter con- 
stituted. 

§ III The board of education shall have power to maintain one or 
two high schools, as it may deem advisable, and a manual training 
school, and it shall determine the number and location of primary and 
grammar schools, but no expenditure involving any expense to the city 
of New Haven or the New Haven city school district for the purchase 
of ground or the erection of schoolhouses shall be made until a special 
appropriation for that purpose shall have been made. 

§ 112 Said board shall annually, at a date to be fixed by the mayor, 
transmit to the mayor a full report of its proceedings during the pre- 
vious year, together with a statement of its receipts and expenditures, 
specifying those on account of current expenses, and special expenses 
for land and buildings respectively, with such other details as the mayor 
may from time to time require. 

§ 113 Said board shall have power to divide the school district into 
as many sub-districts as it may deem advisable for the purpose of deter- 
mining the limits within which children may attend each school. 

§ 114 The city of New Haven, upon the recommendation of the 
board of education, shall have power to take sites for schoolhouses, or 
for the enlargement of sites already acquired, in the manner provided by 
law for the taking of land for public parks. 

§ 115 The title to all property, legal or equitable, owned by such 
district, or which may hereafter be acquired for school purposes in said 
district, is hereby vested in the board of education, as trustee for said 
New Haven city school district. 

§ 116 The Westville school district and the South school district 
are excepted from the provisions hereof. Whenever the electors of 
either the Westville school district or the South school district in the 
town and city of New Haven shall, by a majority vote in district meet- 
ing, in the manner provided for the admission of the different wards 
in section 218 of this act, express their desire to have their district 



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annexed to the New Haven city school district, said vote shall be certi- 
fied to the board of education of the New Haven city school district, 
and said board shall then, by a proper vote, declare the district in ques- 
tion to be a part of the New Haven city school district, and it shall 
thereafter be included in said New Haven city school district, and be 
governed by all the provisions of this act relating to said district. 

New London 
Special Acts of 1893, Page 699 

§ 55 All the rights, powers, and duties relative to education, schools, 
school districts, schoolhouses, school lands, school property, and school 
officers, of whatsoever kind, heretofore conferred or imposed, or here- 
after to be conferred or imposed upon towns, shall be and they are 
imposed and conferred, within the limits of the city of New London, 
upon said city, and upon the officers chosen by it for school purposes. 

§ 56 The school visitors of said city shall continue to be such school 
officers and shall be charged with and perform all the duties of a school 
committee and shall have all its powers, and shall act in the place and 
stead of such committee in all things; and the city of New London 
shall be substituted for and take the place of the town of New London 
in all matters concerning education, and shall act instead of said town 
in all of the same. 

§ 57 All the powers, obligatory duties, rights, and property of said 
city of New London, whether as such city, or as a union school dis- 
trict, in respect to education and schools, shall be vested in and belong- 
to said city of New London, which shall be and act, for all intents and 
purposes, as such union school district, and all such powers and duties 
of said city shall be exercised and performed by said board of school 
visitors, unless otherwise ordered by said city. 

Special Acts of 1899, Page 264 

An Act annexing a Portion of the Town of Waterford to the Town and 
City of Nezv London 

§ 5 The territory hereby annexed shall be a part of the Union 
school district of the city of New London, and from the time when this 
act takes effect said city shall assume and become liable for all obliga- 
tions for the care and expense of schools and education in said territory. 

Special Acts of 1899, Page 371 
An Act amending the Charter of the City of New London 

§ 3 The title to the public schoolhouses, school lands, and school 
property in said city, other than that endowed or specially dedicated by 
private bequests, shall vest in said city of New London, and shall not 
be conveyed by deed, lease, or otherwise without the authority of the 
court of common council of said city. 

§ 7 The mayor of said city, for the time being, shall be a member, 
ex officio, of the board of water commissioners, the board of sewer 
commissioners, and the board of school visitors. 



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NORWALK 

Special Acts of 1901 

§ I The organization and formation of the high schools now exist 
ing and being conducted in the town of Norwalk, and all acts hitherto 
performed in the management and conduct of said schools, are hereby 
validated and confirmed; but said schools shall hereafter be conducted 
under the head or title of the Norwalk High School, with one or more 
departments and courses of study; and for the purpose of maintaining 
such high school, the town of Norwalk may purchase, receive, hold, 
and convey any property, build and repair schoolhouses, lay taxes, and 
make contracts and adopt regulations for the management of such 
school. 

§ 2 The organization, conduct, and management of said school 
shall be under the direction of the board of school visitors of said town, 
and said board shall have in general the powers and duties of district 
committees and boards of school visitors under the laws of this state. 

§ 3 Nothing in this act shall prevent the town of Norwalk, at any 
annual town meeting, from directing its school visitors to discontinue 
said high school or to discontinue purchasing and furnishing, at the 
expense of the town, text-books and other school supplies used in said 
high school. 

Norwich 

Special Acts of 1897, Page 1058 

Falls District 

§ I That the third or Falls school district in the town of Norwich 
be and the same is hereby made and constituted a body politic and cor- 
porate by the name of The Falls District. Said district shall receive 
its proportion of the public money, shall have entire control of all the 
schools within its limits, may establish and maintain schools of different 
grades, and shall have and enjoy all the powers and privileges at 
present enjoyed by school districts in this state. 

§ 2 There shall be elected at a meeting held within and for said 
The Falls District, on the Friday following the second Monday of June, 
1897, at 7.30 o'clock P. M., at the schoolhouse in said The Falls Dis- 
trict, a committee consisting of seven persons, voters in said district, 
by ballot and by a majority vote, three of the members of said com- 
mittee to be elected for one year from and after the date of said meeting, 
two members of said committee to be elected for two years from and after 
the date of said meeting, and two members of said committee to be 
elected for three years from and after the date of said meeting. The 
terms for which said members are to be elected shall be designated upon 
the ballot cast for the same, and they and their successors in office shall 
have the control and management of the schools in said district, examine, 
approve, employ, and dismiss teachers, prescribe the course of study to be 
pursued in the schools, and make such by-laws and rules, not inconsistent 
with the laws of this state, as they shall from time to time deem necessary, 
choose by ballot and by a majority vote of the said committee a presi- 



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dent of said committee, who shall preside at its meetings when present, 
and at meetings of the district when present, and if the president of 
said committee shall be absent from any of said meetings then the 
presiding officer of said meetings shall be selected from any of the 
voters of said district present, at any of said annual and special meet- 
ings of said district, and shall choose in like manner a treasurer of said 
district from among members of said committee; and shall choose in 
like manner as aforesaid a clerk of said district ; and said committee 
and their successors in office shall also have the power and authority 
to borrow money for school purposes upon the credit of said district 
when authorized by vote of said district. In case of vacancy caused 
by resignation, death, or removal from the district, the remaining 
members of said committee by a majority vote shall fill the vacancy 
until the next annual meeting of said district, when some person shall 
be elected by the said district for the unexpired term, and said com- 
mittee shall do and perform all such acts as are now by law devolved 
upon the district committee of said third school district. The com- 
pensation of all of the officers and committees shall be determined by a 
vote of the district. 

§ 3 Said committee shall hold its regular meetings on the first 
Monday of each month, and special meetings may be called by the 
president upon three days' notice thereof, and shall be called by him 
upon the written application of four members of the committee. 

§ 4 The annual meeting of said The Falls District shall be held 
on the Friday after the second Monday of June in each year, at which 
meeting said district shall elect, by ballot and by a majority vote of the 
qualified electors of the district present and voting, two members of the 
said committee for a term of three years, to fill the places of the mem- 
bers whose terms of office shall have expired; and shall elect in the 
manner hereinbefore provided a member or members to fill the unex- 
pired term of any member or members of said committee who shall 
have resigned, died, or moved out of the district, as provided by section 
two of this charter, and a collector of taxes. The annual report of the 
committee and of the district treasurer shall be submitted to said 
meeting. 

§ 5 There shall also be elected at each annual meeting for the 
election of the said committee, in addition to the number specified in 
section four, by a majority vote, by ballot, a member of said committee 
who shall hold office for one year from and after the date of his said 
election. 

§ 6 The annual tax meeting of The Falls District shall be held on 
the Friday following the second Monday of June in each year, and the 
special meetings of the district may be called by the said committee as 
occasion may require, and shall be called on application in writing of 
fifteen legal voters of said district. 

§ 7 The district treasurer and the collector of taxes shall each give 
a bond to the satisfaction of a committee of three voters of said dis- 
trict, elected by the voters of said district at its annual meeting for 
the purposes mentioned in this section, conditioned for the faithful 
performance of their respective duties, and for an accounting of all 
moneys that may be received by either of them. 



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Special Acts of 1899. Page 85 
Greeneville School District 

§ I That the Greeneville school district in the town of Norwich 
be and is hereby made and constituted a body politic and corporate by 
the name of The Greeneville School District. 

§ 2 Said The Greeneville School District shall receive its pro- 
portionate share of the public money; shall have entire and exclusive 
control of all the public schools within the limits of said district ; may 
establish, maintain, and manage schools of different grades therein, and 
shall have and may exercise all the powers and privileges at present 
-enjoyed by school districts in this state. 

§ 3 The first meeting of said corporation shall be held in the brick 
schoolhouse in said district on the Friday next following the third 
Monday of June, 1899, at half-past seven o'clock in the evening, and 
there shall be held a regular annual meeting of said corporation at the 
same place and hour on the Friday next following the third Monday 
of each June thereafter. 

§ 4 Notice of said first meeting, as well as of all regular and special 
meetings, shall be given by publishing a notice thereof once in a daily 
newspaper published in the said town of Norwich, not less than five 
days and not more than ten days prior to such meeting, and also by 
posting a copy of such notice on the outside of the main entrance door 
of said schoolhouse, and a similar copy on the public signpost nearest 
to said schoolhouse at least five days prior to the date of such meeting. 
The notice of said first meeting shall be signed and given by the present 
district committee of said district, and notice of all other meetings shall 
be signed and given by the board of education of said corporation. The 
notice of every special meeting shall state the purpose of such meeting. 
Special meetings may be called and held as occasion may require and 
shall be called by the said board upon the written request of not less 
than twenty of the legal voters residing in said district. 

§ 5 All the legal voters of said district shall be entitled to vote at all 
meetings of said corporation and no other person shall have the right 
to vote or otherwise to participate in said meetings. 

§ 6 The officers of said corporation shall be a board of education 
<:onsisting of six persons, a clerk, a treasurer, a collector, and an auditor, 
-each of whom must be a legal voter residing in said district. 

§ 7 All of said officers shall be elected by ballot, and a majority of 
the lawful ballots cast shall be requisite to elect. 

§ 8 At said first meeting there shall be chosen two members of said 
board of education to serve for one year from the date of said meeting, 
two to serve for two years from said date, and two to serve for three 
years from said date, and the ballots for members of said board cast at 
said first meeting shall state the number of years for which each mem- 
ber of said board shall serve. At each annual meeting thereafter there 
shall be elected two members of said board to serve for three years. 
At said first meeting there shall also be elected a clerk, a treasurer, a 
collector, and an auditor, each to serve for one year from the date of said 
meeting; and at each annual meeting thereafter there shall be chosen 
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a clerk, a treasurer, a collector, and an auditor, each for one year from 
date of election and until their successors are elected and qualified. 

§ 9 The said board of education shall have the entire and exclusive 
control, supervision, and management of all public schools within the 
limits of said school district; and shall possess, enjoy, and exercise all 
the powers, and shall perform all the duties of school district committees 
and of school visitors ; and the school visitors of said town of Norwich 
shall cease to have and to exercise any authority in said district when 
this resolution takes effect. 

§ 10 Said board of education shall also have the power to make and 
to enforce proper rules and by-laws for its own government, and for the 
management of said corporation and of its affairs ; and to amend, alter, 
or suspend the same; and to choose such officers of said board as it may 
deem requisite, including a president thereof. 

§ II The president of said board shall preside at all the meetings 
thereof, as well as at all meetings of said corporation, but in case the 
president is absent, or when there is a vacancy in his office, his duties 
shall be performed by such other member of said board as shall be 
designated by vote of the remaining members of said board; provided, 
that at the said first meeting of said corporation the legal voters present 
shall elect viva voce the presiding officer of said first meeting. 

§ 12 The auditor shall duly examine all books, accounts, and 
vouchers of said corporation and of its officers, shall make a true and full 
report of his examinations and doings, when and as required by the rules 
and by-laws adopted by said board ; and shall perform such other duties 
as said board may impose on him. The other officers shall discharge 
the duties, and shall have and exercise the powers and privileges, of the 
corresponding officers of said school district, as constituted before the 
creation of said corporation. 

§ 13 Said board shall hold meetings for the transaction of business 
at such times and places as shall be determined by said board, and a 
majority of the members thereof shall constitute a quorum for the 
transaction of all proper business. 

§ 14 Said board shall have full and exclusive power to examine, 
employ, and dismiss teachers for the public schools in said district, 
and also to perform all the duties and to exercise all the powers and 
privileges now possessed and enjoyed by school district committees 
in this state. 

§ 15 Said board of education shall have power to borrow money 
for the legitimate needs of said corporation, upon the credit of said 
corporation, and to execute and negotiate its suitable obligations there- 
for. 

§ 16 The treasurer and collector shall each furnish a bond, with 
surety or sureties satisfactory to said board and conditioned for the 
faithful performance of their respective duties; and no person shall 
enter upon the duties of the office of either treasurer or collector until 
his bond shall have been accepted and approved by said board. 

§ 17 Said board shall fix the compensation of all officers and of 
all other employes of said corporation. 

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presented written reports of the treasurer and the board of education 
for the preceding twelve months, and a written estimate by said board 
of the receipts and expenses of the twelve months following. 

§ 19 Any vacancy in any of said offices shall be filled by said board, 
or the remaining members thereof, until the next annual meeting. 

§ 20 This act shall take effect on the twenty-third day of June, 
1899, on the organization of the first meeting of said corporation as 
provided in said act; and the terms of all the present officers of The 
Greeneville Scjiool District shall terminate at the time this act takes 
effect as herein provided; and the report of the officers of said district 
shall be made at said first meeting. 

Orange 
Special Acts of 1899, Page 269 
Union School District of Orange 

§ I The Union School District of the town of Orange may, at its 
next annual meeting, vote upon the question of whether or not said 
district will adopt the form of school government provided for in sec- 
tions 2130, 2131, 2132, 2133, and 2134 of the general statutes, and if a 
majority of the voters of said district shall at said meeting vote in 
favor of adopting said form of government, then the officers of said 
district elected at said annual meeting shall hold office until the third 
Monday of September, 1899. 

§ 2 If said district shall vote to adopt said form of government, 
then said district shall hold its annual meeting on the third Monday of 
September, 1899, and annually thereafter; and at the annual meeting 
held on the third Monday of September, 1899, elect the officers provided 
for in said section 2130 of the general statutes, and shall elect two 
members of a board of education to serve for one year, two members to 
serve for two years, and two members to serve for three years, and 
annually thereafter two members to serve for three years, as provided 
in said statutes. 

§ 3 Upon said district voting as herein provided, and upon the 
election of officers of said district as provided in section two, said dis- 
trict and said officers shall have all the powers, rights, and duties, and 
be subject to all* the obligations imposed upon school districts so 
organized as provided in sections 2130, 2131, 2132, 2133, and 2134 of the 
general statutes, and all other acts relating to school districts so far as 
the same are applicable ; and in case of a vacancy occurring in any office, 
the board of education may fill the same till the next annual meeting. 

§ 4 The adoption by said district of said form of government shall 
in no manner affect the rights, property, or obligations of said school 
district, but the same shall continue in the same manner as if this act 
had not been passed, and shall be administered, adjusted, and liquidated 
by said district and by the officers elected in pursuance of this act, in 
lieu of the officers now administering the same, and all debts due said 
district and all obligations due from said district shall be collected and 
paid by said district and by the officers elected hereunder, to the same 
extent as if this act had not been passed. 



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§ 5 If said district shall vote to adopt said form of government, 
the school visitors of the town of Orange shall only have jurisdiction 
in the remaining portion of the town after the third Monday of Sep- 
tember, 1899. 

§ 6 This act shall take effect from its passage. 



Waterbury 
Special Acts of 1899, Page 498 

§ I The territorial limits of the body politic and corporate existing 
under the name of the city of Waterbury shall hereafter include all 
land and territory situated within the limits of the Center school dis- 
trict of Waterbury as now or hereafter defined. 

§ 2 There shall be in the city of Waterbury a department of educa- 
tion which shall have the care and management of all the property and 
affairs of the Center school district of Waterbury. After this act shall 
take effect no meeting of said Center school district shall be held for 
any purpose whatever. 

§ 3 Said department shall be under the control of the board of 
education, consisting of the mayor, who shall be ex officio chairman, and 
seven members, who shall be elected biennially at the meeings of said 
city for the election of officers; and for this purpose separate ballots 
shall be provided in the several voting places in said city. The terms 
of office of said members shall begin on the first Monday of January 
next following their election, and the provisions of the charter of said 
city in relation to the powers and duties of city officers shall apply to 
said members. 

§ 4 No person shall vote for more than four members of the board 
of education. If any ballot found in said boxes shall have the names 
of more than four persons for members of said board, the first four 
names only shall be counted, and the seven persons of the whole number 
voted for and counted as aforesaid having the highest number of votes 
shall be declared elected members of the board of education of said 
city. In case a vacancy shall occur in said board by reason of a tie 
vote, or death, resignation, or removal, or any other cause, such vacancy 
may be filled in the manner now provided for filling vacancies in other 
city offices. 

§ 5 The members of said board of education shall receive such 
compensation for their services as shall be prescribed by the board of 
aldermen. 

§ 6 Said board shall hold regular meetings every month, and 
special meetings at such times as it may appoint or the mayor may call. 
Except in case of a tie, the mayor shall have no vote in any meeting. 

§ 7 The board of education shall appoint a superintendent of 
schools, and shall decide the number of principals, assistants, and teach- 
ers to be employed. It may appoint or employ a clerk, an inspector of 
buildings, and such other officers and employes as may be necessary 
for the proper conduct of its business. It shall fix their salaries, sub- 
ject to the approval of the board of finance, and prescribe their terms 



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of office, and their duties, in each case, except as hereinafter provided. 
The officers and employes of the Center school district, at the time 
when this act shall take effect, shall retain their respective offices until 
their successors shall be chosen and duly qualified, and the rules and 
regulations of the board of education and district committee then in 
existence, not inconsistent with this act, shall remain in full force until 
repealed. The board of education herein provided for shall have the 
entire charge and direction of all the public schools of said district, 
and of the expenditure of all moneys appropriated for the support of 
the same, and shall have power to construct, manage, and repair all 
school buildings, and shall possess all other powers and be subject to 
all of the general duties of boards of education, school committees, 
and school visitors in this state, so far as the same are consistent with 
the terms of this act. It shall make its own by-laws, keep a journal of 
its proceedings, define the duties of its officers and committees, and pre- 
scribe such rules and regulations for discipline in the said public schools 
as are not inconsistent with the laws of the state. 

§ 8 The superintendent of schools shall be appointed for the term 
of two years, and his salary shall not be increased or decreased during 
any term except in the manner provided by the charter of said city. 
He shall not be removed during said term except by the vote of five 
members of the board of education. He shall appoint from those 
eligible under the rules of the board all principals, assistants, and 
teachers necessary to fill positions authorized by the board. He shall 
assign all principals, assistants, and teachers to their respective posi- 
tions, and reassign them or dismiss them from office at his discretion. 
He shall report at each meeting of the board all appointments, reassign- 
ments, and dismissals made by him since the previous meeting. Any 
appointment by the superintendent may be rejected by a vote of the 
majority of the board. Any dismissal by the superintendent shall be 
final unless reversed by a vote of a majority of the board at the meeting 
when such dismissal is reported. Notice of dismissal on the part of 
the superintendent shall be given to the principal, assistant, or teacher 
by the superintendent in writing at least one week before the meeting 
of the board when the superintendent reports such dismissal. He shall, 
with the approval of the board of education, prescribe the course of 
study in all the schools, but the text-books to be used in said courses 
shall be designated by the board. The superintendent shall annually, 
at a date to be fixed by the board, submit to the board a full report of 
the work and condition of the schools during the previous year, with 
recommendations for the ensuing year, which report, when accepted by 
the board, shall form part of its report to the mayor. He shall also 
report, each month during the school year, to the board in writing, any 
changes made in the course of stud}-, and what principals, assistants, 
and teachers he has assigned, reassigned, or dismissed, and shall fur- 
nish such additional information regarding the condition of the schools 
and the efficiency of the teaching force as may be required by the 
board. Said monthly reports shall be entered in a suitable book pro- 
vided for that purpose, and shall be kept as part of the records of the 
department. 



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§ 9 The treasurer of the city shall receive the amount of school 
money to which the district is entitled from the school moneys of the 
state, from the town of Waterbury, from state appropriations for school 
purposes, from gifts, and from the tax laid within the district for school 
purposes, which moneys shall be subject to the order of the board of 
education under such rules and regulations as the board of finance may 
from time to time establish. 

§ 10 The board of education shall submit to the board of finance 
of the city, at the time fixed by law for the submission of the estimates 
of the other departments of said city, a detailed estimate of its ex- 
penses for the next j'^ear for which the appropriations for city purposes 
are by law required to be made, specifying separately the sums needed 
for current and special expenses. 

§ II The provisions of sections 92 and 93 of the charter of the city 
of Waterbury shall apply to such estimates, and to all taxes and appro- 
priations based thereon ; but no tax shall be laid upon any property 
lying outside of the present limits of the city of Waterbury and within 
the limits of said city as hereby established at a rate exceeding one-half 
of the rate of taxation upon property lying within the present limits 
of said city. 

§ 12 The board of education shall annually, at a date fixed by the 
mayor, transmit to the mayor a full report of its proceedings during 
the previous year, together with a statement of its receipts and ex- 
penditures, specifying those on account of current expenses and special 
expenses for land and buildings respectively, with such other details as 
the mayor may from time to time require. 

§ 13 Said board shall have power to divide the school district into 
as many sub-districts as it may deem advisable, for the purpose of 
determining the limits within which children may attend each school. 

§ 14 The city of Waterbury, upon the recommendation of the 
board of education, shall have power to take sites for schoolhouses, or 
for the enlargement of sites already acquired, in the manner provided by 
law for taking of land for public parks. 

§ 15 The title to all property, legal or equitable, owned by said dis- 
trict, or which may hereafter be acquired for school purposes in said 
district, is hereby vested in the board of education, as trustee for said 
Center school district. 

§ 16 Nothing in this act shall be construed to restrict the right of 
any woman to vote at any meeting held for the purpose of choosing 
any officer of schools, or for any educational purpose under the general 
or special laws of this state, and nothing herein shall confer upon any 
woman the right to vote for the mayor of said city of Waterbury or for 
any other city officer. 

Amending the Charter of the City of Waterbury and Consolidating 
the Governments of the Town and City of Waterbury 

Special Acts of 1901, Page 858. 
§ 10 All liabilities, debts, and obligations owing on said first Mon- 
day of January, 1902, from or by the city or Center school district of 
Waterbury, shall remain a liability, debt, and obligation upon the per- 



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sons and property within the second district hereinbefore described, and 
any indebtedness, bonded, or otherwise, thereafter incurred for any 
purposes within said second district not in this act provided to be paid 
by said first district, including disposal of sewage, shall be assumed 
solely by the said second district. 

§ 11 The several school districts of the town of Waterbury, out- 
side of said second district, shall continue to remain as school districts 
with the same territorial limits, rights, powers, and obligations as now 
existing with the exception as set forth in section seven of this act, and 
the obligations now imposed upon the town of Waterburj-, with respect 
to the support of schools outside of said second district, are hereby 
imposed upon said city of Waterbury and shall be an expense incurred 
by and chargeable to the first district hereinbefore described. 

§ 12 Whenever twenty-five electors residing in any one of said 
school districts shall petition the board of aldermen of said city that 
the school district within which they reside may be brought under the 
full jurisdiction of the second district heretofore described, so that the 
persons and property within said school district may secure from the 
government of said city the same benefits and be subject to the same 
obligations as persons and propertj"- within said second district, said 
board of aldermen, after due hearing, shall fix a day on which all legal 
voters residing within the limits of said school district may vote upon 
the question whether they are in favor of or opposed to said petition. 
And if on said day a majority of the votes cast within said school dis- 
trict shall be found in favor of having said petition granted, said board 
of aldermen shall grant the same and make an order that the said school 
district, together with its inhabitants and property, shall thereafter be 
and remain under the full jurisdiction of the said second district, and 
such order shall have the same force and effect as if it formed a part 
of this act, and said school district shall then be deemed to have been 
abolished as a school district. 

§ 13 The board of education of said city shall, on and after the 
first Monday of January, 1902, have and possess all of the powers and 
duties vested in town school visitors by the general statutes. Said 
board shall have the power, at its discretion, of admitting any child 
resident in any of the several school districts outside of said second 
taxation district to any graded school within said second district, and 
shall admit any such child to the high school within said district, if 
such child shall be qualified for admission thereto, upon payment of 
such annual fee as may be determined upon by said board of education. 
Such fee shall be paid by said city and be an expense of and chargeable 
to the said first taxation district, provided, that not more than thirty 
dollars shall be paid for each scholar attending such schools from any 
of said several school districts. 



INDEX 





Section 


Abolition of school districts, . • . . . 


173. 174 


vote how taken, 


174 


repeal of vote, 


175 


Academy, endowed, ...... 


70 


incorporated, ...... 


70 


State Board of Education may examine, 


70 


may approve, 


70 


Accounts, of State Board of Education, .... 


9 


agents, ....... 


7 


normal school, ..... 


15 


State aid to libraries, ..... 


8 


Acting School Visitor, appointment of, . 


lOI 


not necessaril)'- a member of the Board, 


102 


compensation, .... 


102, 103 


duties, ..... 


lOI 


in districts having board of education, . 


61, 102 


to certify schools kept according to law, 


21^ 


to certify attendance in non-local high 




schools to State Board of Education, 


69 


names of children for conveyance 




grant, .... 


73 


to purchase text-books for children when 




parents are unable, 


46 


to certify cost to selectmen or town 




school committee. 


46 


town treasurer to pay bill, . 


46 


Age, of school attendance, ...... 


17. 38 


employment, ...... 


23, 24 


enumeration, ...... 


202 


penalty for false statement concerning, 


22 


Agents, State Board of Education, to secure observance of laws 




relating to instruction of 




children, . 


6 


term of office, 


7, 27 


remuneration, 


7, 27 


accounts audited by 




Comptroller, 


7. 27 


to enforce attendance laws, 


7, 27 


to enforce child labor law, . 


7. 27 


to act as superintendents, . 


119 


to request hearing if school 




accommodations not fur- 




nished. 


47 


to inspect private school reg- 




isters. 


20 


to investigate age of children , 


25 



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Alcohol, effects of taught, .... 
in normal schools, 
examination in, . 
Almshouse, not exempt from taxation, 
Ansonia, special act relating to schools, 
Apparatus, state grant for, .... 

to be approved by school visitors or town school 

committee, .... 
districts may purchase, 
Appeal to Superior Court, in proceedings for taking land for 

schoolhouse site, . 
to alter school districts, 
to define boundary lines, 
to divide district property 
Appointment of town school officers, 

Appraisement of district property at time of consolidation, 
Apportionment of money to districts, 

lying in two or more towns 
Appropriation, for normal schools, . 
public schools, . 
school libraries, 
teachers' meetings, 
evening schools, 
state distribution of, 
Arbor and Bird Day, to be observed by schools, . 
Arrest of truant boys, .... 

girls, .... 

Assessment, of property by school districts. 
Attendance, age of , . 

certificates of , . 
evidence of , . 
at private schools, 

possible, .... 

excuses for non-attendance, . 
failure, penalty, 

complaint, all offenses in same, 
suspension of sentence, 
penalty, not incurred when — 

child lacks clothing 
child's mental or physical 
condition renders at 
tendance inexpedient, 
when compulsory for children between 14 and 16, 
at evening schools. 
Average attendance, grant, ..... 

to be reported to State Board of Education 
grant, condition of, . 

method of payment, . 



Section 

43 

43 

104, 194 

163 

page 85 

200 

107, 200 
123 

159, 160 
127 
125 
182 

87 

181, 182 

217 

109, 226 

12 

108, 207 
200 

2 

77 
108, 207 
50 
31 
36 
162-168 

17 
24 
24 

20 
38 
17, 18 
18 
18 
18 



IS 

17, 19 

76 

208 
210 
208 
210 



Ballot, officers voted for on each, 



254 



lo; 



87,96 
140 



Note 



Ballot, what to be placed in envelope, 
officers to be chosen by, . 
what matters decided by, . 
Ballot-box, provided for women's votes, . 

vote on consolidation. 
Bird day, ..... 

Blanks, form prescribed by State Board of Education, 
Board of education, in districts formerly school societies, 
powers and duties, . 
shall report to State Board of Education, 
shall send returns and certificates to Comp 

troller, .... 
may admit to school children over four, 
may appoint superintendent, 
fix salary, 
may organize supervision district, . 
may require children to be vaccinated, 
shall preserve books and documents, 
may administer oath, 

may purchase and loan text-books to pupils 
may appoint acting visitor, not of their 

own number, ... 
may examine teachers, 
shall hear parents when school accommo 

dations not furnished, 
must certify average number attending 

evening schools to Comptroller 
must report to State Board of Education 

concerning evening schools, 
may petition for superintendent, . 
may prescribe supplementary books, 
two-thirds vote of, to change text-books 
may superintend evening schools, . 
may grant certificates to teachers, 
may revoke teachers' certificates, . 
may sign teachers' certificates, 
may appoint acting visitor (see Acting 

Visitors), .... 
may employ teachers when authorized, 

of music, 
secretary shall certify salary of superin- 
tendent to State Board of Education, 
Board of Education, State, constitution of, 
appointment, , 
vacancies, 
how filled, 
expenses of, 
quorum, 

may appoint secretary 
may hire clerks 



Note 



Section 

255 

. 144. 145 

, 141, 174 

262 

174 

50 

2, page 4 
59 
61 
61 

61 
38 
115 
115 
116 
112 

113 
114 

45 

102 
104 

47 

77 

77 
119 
III 
III 

75 
104 
104 
194 

lOI 

105, 197 
42 

117 
I 
I 
I 
I 
I, page 3 
I 
I 
I 



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Board of Education, duties and powers, .... 
superintend Normal Schools, 
enforce laws relating to attendance at 
school, ..... 

enforce laws relating to employment of 
children, ..... 
examine teachers , . 

examine teachers for schools in County 

Homes, ..... 

expend sum appropriated for Normal 

Schools, ..... 

appoint acting visitor or visitors for County 

Homes, ..... 

keep account of State aid to libraries, . 

appoint a Public Library Committee, 

make annual report, .... 

order sanitary changes in schoolhouses, 

relieve towns from maintaining evening 

schools, 
render accounts to Comptroller, 
control educational interests of state, 
direct books to be used, 
prescribe form of registers, . 
expend necessary sum to perform duties, . 
prepare outline of citizenship, 
determine number of pupils in Normal 
Schools, ..... 
apply for high school grant, 
apply for high school conveyance grant, 
appoint agents, .... 

establish model schools at Normal Schools, 
hold teachers' meetings, 
approve high schools, 

to be furnished with number and names of 

pupils attending high schools in towns 

other than those in which they reside, . 

test eyesight, ..... 

appoint an acting visitor at County Home 

schools, ..... 

appoint agent to be superintendent, 

qualifications. 
salar5s 
grant certificates to teachers, 
Board of Relief, how constituted, ..... 

school visitors (see Visitors). 
Bonds, to be given by treasurer and collector of district, 
Books and apparatus — 

shall be approved by town school committee, 
by school visitors, . 
Boundary lines of districts, ...... 



Section 

I, 84 

12 

7. 27 

7. 2 
4 

84 
15 



245 

2 

264 

79 
8,9 
2 
2 
2 
9 
3, 41 

13 
69 
73 

7. 27 

I 

2 

67 



69 

5 



119 
119 
119 
195 
165 

150 

, 107 

107 

124, 125 



109 



Boundary lines of districts, settlement of, 

record of, 
Boys, Connecticut School for, 
Branches, taught in public schools, 
evening schools, 
in which teachers must be examined, , 
Bridgeport, special act relating to schools, 
Buildings, injuries to, ... . 

Care and reformation of children, . 
for what children intended, 
commitment of children to homes, 
boys, Connecticut school for, 

when boy is under ten years of age. 
United States court may commit boys, 
boys to remain at school how long, . 
girls, Connecticut Industrial school for, , 
appeals, 
fees, . 
costs, . 
Certificates, age, 

penalty for false, 
who may issue. 
State board of education ma}' investigate, 
age may be recorded, 
parent shall make oath to age of child, 
fee for recording, .... 
must be kept on file by employer, 
when inconsistent record on school register, 
when child has not attended school in this state 
state board of education may grant, 
parents shall make oath to facts, 
parent shall exhibit evidence, 
child not born in the United States, 
legal protection to employer. 
Certificates, teachers, ..... 104 

given by school visitors, 
by State Board of Education, 
must be accepted by school officers, 
may be revoked, ... 66, 104, 

of high schools, 
must be obtained by teacher, 
Children, care and reformation of, . 
instruction of , . 
to be educated, at home or at school 
to attend school regularly and constantly when not 

employed, 

under fourteen, employment of 

under fourteen, not to be employed in factories and 

stores, ....... 



Section 

12 

124 

274-277 

38 

74. 78 

104 

page 86 

287 

272-285 
272 

273 

274-277 

275 
276 

277 
278-281 
282 
283 
284 

24 
22 
24 
25 
24 
24 

24 

25 

25 

25 

25 

25 

24 

26 

196 

194 

195 

4 

194, 195 

66 

196 

272-285 

17 

17 

17 
21 

23 



24, 



194 

104 
4 



no 



Children, certificate of age of, . 

enumeration of , . 

temporarily residing in district, . 
admission of non-resident to district schools, . 
in districts where there is no school, provision for, 
dependent and neglected, provision for, 
imbecile, provision for, .... 

not to be employed in exhibitions, etc., 
not allowed in pool rooms, 
City district, tax in, . 
Citizenship, duties of, taught, .... 

outline to be prepared by State Board of Education, 
Classification of school visitors, 

town school committee, . 
Clerk of school district, compensation, 
election of, 
term of office, 
must be sworn, . 
duties of, . . . . 136, 

to determine place of meeting when no 

committee, 
to give notice of meeting when no com- 
mittee, . 

to enumerate children if committee fail, 
to report names of school officers to 

school visitors, 
if district is in two towns notice must be 
sent to both secretaries, 

penalty for failure to comply 
to furnish access to records, 
Clothing, lack of, excuse for non-attendance, 
Collector, election, .... 

duties of , . 
to give bonds, 
term of office, 
Committee, high school, see high schools, 
town, see School Committee, 
district, see District Committee, 
in consolidated districts, see town School Committee, 
library, ...... 

supervision district, see Supervision. 
Complaints, non-attendance, .... 

Comptroller, to audit expenses of State Board of Education, 
accounts of state library money, . 
accounts of normal schools, 
accounts of agents, 
accounts of public libraries, 
draw orders in favor of districts having a board 
of education, ..... 



Section 
25 
202, 203 
202 
156 
223 
272 
285 
286 
294 
221 

3. 41 

3. 41 

95 

177 

142 

144 

144 

144 

139' 149 

135 

136 
262 

147 

147 
147 
151 
18 
144 
149 
150 
144 



176 
107 

18 

9 
8 

15 

27 
252, 253 

62 



Ill 



Section 



taught, 



Comptroller, to distribute income of school fund and annual 

state appropriation, .... 

to draw orders in favor of town supporting evening 

schools, . 
to draw order for high school tuition fees, 
to draw order for conveyance grant, 
to withhold school dividend if hygiene not 
may make deduction from public money, 
sue for misapplied money, 
deduct forfeiture, 
returns to, 
Compulsory education, 
Condemnation of land for school purposes, 
Consolidation of districts, . 

towns may vote, 

by ballot, 
at annual meeting, 
form of ballot, 
method of procedure, 
vote takes effect when 
pay expenses of schools, 
committee, first, .... 
subsequent, 
election, 
qualifications, . 
minority representation, 
term of office, . 
number, how determined, 
classification, . 
powers and duties 
adjustment of property and debts, 
appraisement, . 
payment, 
permanent funds, management of, 
joint districts, notice of abolition of, 
mode of paying debts, 

collecting taxes, . 
libraries, school, .... 
expenses, how paid, 
abandonment after five years, 
when takes effect, . 
districts, reimbursement of town for expenses 
town committee becomes Board of 

School Visitors, . 
effect of vote to re(5stablish, 
condemnation of land for school purposes, 

193 (see 158-161) 

Constables, special, to arrest for truancy, ... 37 

appointed by selectmen, . . . 37 



207 



69 

73 

44 

211 

212 

100 

108, 204, 207 

17 
193 (see 158-161) 

173 
173 
174 

174 
174 
174 
175 
185 
176 
177 
176 
176 
177 
177 
176 
177 
179 and note. 
t8o 
180 
181 
183 
186 
188 
189 
184 
185 
175 
191 
190 

192 
191 



112 



Constables, nominated by school visitors, 

may arrest for disturbance of schools, 

for disturbance of school meetings, 
for damage to school propert3^ . 
County Homes, schools in, . 
Conveyance (see Transportation). 
Crimes, ....... 

offenses against the person, , . 
public property, . 
public peace and safety, 
public policy, ... 

Damages, assessment of, when taking land for site of school 
house, ....... 

Dependent and neglected children, homes, how provided, 
Deposit fund, town, . 

income of paid to town treasury: 
Derby School District, special act relating to schools, 
Distribution of public money, 
Districts, duties and powers, 
how formed, 
united, 
altered, 
dissolved, 
divided, 
are corporations, 
powers, maybe sued, 

hold real estate, , 
hold personal property, 
build schoolhouses, 
establish schools, 
purchase school apparatus, 
maintain school library, 
employ teachers, . 
pay wages, 
lay taxes, . 
conduct schools, . 
boundary lines, 

record of, 
settlement of, . 
alteration or abolition of, 

parts of districts, 
disposition of funds, 
notice, 
consolidation of , . 
division of, .... 

lying in two or more towns, 
settlement of proportions of indebtedness of 
power of Superior Court in premises 
employment and payment of teachers by. 



Section 
37 
37 
37 
37 
80-86 

286-295 
286 
287, 288 
289, 290 
291-295 



I 59, 160 

272 

230-239 

213 

page 87 
207 
123 
121 
121 
121 
121 
122 
123 
123 
123 
123 
123 
123 
123 
123 
123 
123 
123 

123 

124 
124 
125 
121 
121 
129 
126 
129 
122 
121 
130 
131 
123 



113 



Section 
Districts, enumeration in, ...... 171,202 

expenses to be paid by town, . . . 217, 219 

first meeting, how called, .... 49 

formation, alteration, and dissolution, . 121 
notice of , . . 126 
formation, alteration, and dissolution, appeal to Supe- 
rior Court, . . 127 
procedure, . . . 128 
funds and property on consolidation or division, . 129 
jurisdiction over, if lying in several towns, . . 133 
may establish kindergarten schools, ... 39 
may take land for site of schoolhouse, . . 158 
may require bond of treasurer and collector, . . 150 
may establish kindergarten, .... 39 

meetings, , . . . . . 134, 170 

when held, . . . . . 134 

where held, . . . . 135 

notice of, . . . . . 136 

what to specify, . . . 136 

check list for voting in, . . . 140 

legal voters in, . . . . . 137 

penalty for illegal vote, . . . 143 

inmates of almshouse cannot vote, . . 138 

conduct of, . . . . . 139 

adjournment, ..... 140 

registry list, . . . . . 139 

vote by ballot, how ordered and taken, . 140 

special, to vote by ballot, . . . . 141 

may choose own moderator, . . . 143 

annual, for election of officers, . . 144 

neglect to maintain school, . . . . 152 

receive no State aid in such case, . . 152 

officers, ....... 144 

names to be reported by clerk to school visitors, 147 

records of, , . . . . . . 124 

penalty for refusing access to, . . 151 

boundary lines, .... 124 

situated in different towns, money how distributed, . 226, 227 
committee shall employ teachers when authorized, . 105,197 
schoolhouse must be satisfactory to board of school 

visitors, . . . . . 153 

schoolhouse plan must be approved by board of school 

visitors, . . . . . 154 

site, how changed, . . . . 155 

may be used for other purposes than school, 157 

non-resident pupils in, . . . . 156 

extra expenses, ...... 224 

incurred by, .... 224 

formed from school societ3% . . . 59 

registry list, . . . . . 139 



114 



Districts, school in, not kept according to law, 
tax in city, .... 
time of payment to, 
voters in, . 

warnings, power of Superior Court, 
to receive no State or town money unless report made 
to school visitors, .... 
nor unless a suitable schoolhouse provided, 
under act of 1841, ..... 
joint, situated in different towns, 
provision to be made for scholars when no school 
union of small, ..... 
District committee, election of , . 

must have a majority, 

duties of, .... , 

enumeration of children by, 

to be reported to school visitors 
limitation of power, . 
must be resident of district, 
names to be reported to State Board of Edu 

cation, .... 
in large districts, number of, 

how chosen, 
penalty for failure to call district meeting 
term of office, 

in larger districts, 
visitation of schools by, 
vacancies filled by school visitors, . 
may call special meetings of abolished 

districts, . 
agent ex officio of district, 
powers and duties : 

give notice of meetings, 

special, 
provide school rooms, 
visit schools, . 
provide text-books, . 
suspend incorrigible pupils 
report to the board of school visitors, 
limitation of power to make contracts 
may employ teacher, 
shall not employ teacher beyond term of 

office, 
majority required to elect, 
vacancies in large districts, how filled. 
Ecclesiastical society, land of, not to be taken for site of school 
house, . . . . , 

Election of district officers, failure, 
school officers, 
educational purposes, 



Section 
2ZI 
221 

219 

137. 138 

127 

153 
132 

133 
223 
223 
144 
146 
170, 171 





187 


20, 


169 


36, 


170 




170 




170 




170 




170 




170 


71, 


225 




172 


05, 


197 



lis 



Employer must obtain certificate for children under sixteen, . 

must be signed by registrar, town 

clerk, teacher, or custodian, 

keep on file certificate of age, . 

show certificate to the secretary or agent of the State 

Board of Education, 

show certificate to the town school officers, . 

penalty for failure to have age certificate, 

Employment of children under fourteen, forbidden during 

school hours, .... 

penalty, ..... 

prohibited in certain establishments, 

Employment of children in non-lawful occupations. 

Enumeration of children, by district committee, 

in joint districts, 

by school visitor or person appointed 

by school visitors, 
by town school committee, 
fees for, .... 
form of return to school visitors, 
correction of return, 
certificate to Comptroller by school 

visitors, 
penalty for refusing to give age of 

child, 
in county homes, 
Estimate, of cost of schools for each year by school visitors and 

selectmen, ..... 

Evening schools, towns may establish, 

towns having ten thousand or more inhabitants 
must establish, . . . , 

attendance compulsory at, . 

law as to, how enforced, 
all three school visitors shall supervise, 
returns to Comptroller, . 
branches, ..... 
petition for high school branches, 
duties of school officers, ... 
state grant to, . 

state grant to, method of obtaining, . 
number of sessions, 
towns may be relieved from establishing 

when, ..... 
report of to state board of education, . 
Examination, of teachers by school visitors, 

State Board of Education, . 
town school committee, 
board of education, 
Excuses, legal, for non-attendance, lack of clothing, 

mental or physical disability 



Section 
24 

24 

24 

24 
24 
24 

21 
21 

23 

286 

171, 202 

202 

205 
202 
203 
204 

204 

206 
82 

215 
78 

74 
76 
76 
75 
77 
74 
74 
75 
77 
77 
77 

79 

77 

104 

4 

179 

104 

18 

18 



ii6 



Exits from public buildings, 
Expenses, of teachers' meetings, 

schools in consolidated districts, 

in city school districts, . 

of maintaining schools, . 

estimates of, 

in excess of appropriation, 
Expulsion of pupils, . 
Eyesight, tests prepared by state board of education, 
used by teachers when. 



Factories, inspection of by school visitors or school committee 
Fees, of assessors of taxes, .... 
magistrates on prosecution of vagrants, . 
school visitors, for enumeration of children, 
officers, for arresting truants, 
registrars for recording date of birth, 
Fire escapes, .... 
Flag, exercises to be held, . 
Flags, to be provided by selectmen, 
penalty for not furnishing, . 
foreign not to be displayed, . 

penalty, 
Forfeitures, for delay in making returns, . 

making fraudulent certificate, 
misapplication of school moneys 
neglect to support schools, 
of clerk to furnish access to records, penalty, 
report names of district offi 
cers to school visitors 
penalty, 
by selectmen for failure to provide flags, 
if schools not kept according to law, 
remitted by secretary of State Board of Educa 
tion, ..... 

Form, of return of enumeration by a committee, . 

school visitor, 
certificate of school visitors to comptroller. 
Fraudulent certificates, ..... 
Funds, school, disposition of on alteration of districts, . 
disposition of on abolition of districts, 

repeal of vote of abolition, 
income of society or district, 

town deposit fund, . . 213, 

permanent, treasurer to be elected, 

Girls' Connecticut Industrial School (see Connecticut Industrial 
School for Girls),' ...... 

vagrant, committed to Connecticut Industrial School at 
request of parent or guardian, .... 

procedure (see Truants). 



Section 

267 

2 

185 

221 

217, 219 

215 
219 
170 

5 

5 

28 
165 

34 
202 

33 

24 

268 

52 

51 

53 

295 

295 

99, 100 

229 

212 

222 

151 



228 
203 
264 
207 
229 
129 

183 
190 
214 

230, 239 
54 

278, 281 
281 



117 







Section 


Governor shall designate arbor and bird day, 


50 


Graded schools, may be established, 




123 


Grant, high school, ..... 




67 


amount of , . 




68 


procedure for obtaining, 




69 


library, school, .... 




200 


public, .... 




250 


evening school, .... 




77 


state, on basis of enumeration, 




207 


average attendance, 




208 


method of payment, . 




210 


Health, 




263-271 


officers, powers and duties. 




270 


town, .... 




271 


High school, subjects may be taught in evening schools 




74 


town may establish, . 


. 


64 


committee of , . 




65 


elected by ballot, 




65 


number, 




65 


tie, 




65 


vacancies, how filled, 




66 


may employ teachers when author 




ized, 


105, 197 


duties of school visitors or town school committee 


97 


. powers of school visitors or town school committer 




over, ..... 


66 


shall superintend, 




66 


examine teachers, 




66 


give certificates, . 




66 


visit schools, 




66 


revoke certificates, 




66 


State aid for library, . 




200 


support of , . 




64 


town not maintaining high school may pa> 




tuition fees of children in non-local school, when 


67 


tuition fees, ..... 


67 


paid by town treasurer. 


67 


cost of conveyance to, . . . 


71 


approved by state board oi 




education for conveyance 




grant. 


71 


endowed, state board of education may examine. 


70 


state board of education may approve. 


70 


incorporated, state board of education may e: 




amine, 


70 


state board of education may a.\ 




prove, 


70 


Hygiene, examination in, . 


104 


must be taught, ..... 


43 


in normal schools, 




43 



Ii8 



Hygiene, not to be taught in high schools, 
normal schools must teach, 
penalty for failure to teach, 

Imbeciles, school for, .... 
Improvements, towns must be reimbursed for, 
Incidentals, money raised to secure state aid for library, 

expended for books for indigent pupils, 
Industrial School for Girls, who may be sent to, . 

what authority may commit, 
Instruction of children, .... 

agent to secure, 
Irregularity of attendance, .... 

Janitors, may be appointed constables by selectmen, 
Joint board of school visitors and selectmen: 

action if expenditure exceeds appropriation, 

action if expenses unnecessary and extravagant, 

meeting of , . . . 

notify committees of estimated cost, 

fix wages of teachers, . 
incidental expenses, . 

notify districts of estimates, 

records of, 

appropriation by to districts, 

expenses of. 
Justice of the Peace, prosecution of truants before. 

Kindergarten schools, may be established, 
who may attend. 

Labor, child, see Employment. 

Law, school kept according to, . . . . 109 

to be maintained, required by, 
of higher order than is required by 
Leaving certificates, .... 

granted by school ofiScers, . 
Libraries, penalties for injuries to books, . 
school, account of state aid to, . 
committee, 

duties, 
establishment of, . 
expenses incurred by districts reckoned among 

incidental expenses, . 
selection of books for, 
state aid to, 

based upon actual attendance 

in consolidated districts, . 

supervision of, by school visitors, or town 

school committee, . . . . 



Section 
43 
43 
44 

285 
190 
200 
170 
36, 281 
281 



97, 200 



119 



Libraries, school, joint board may appropriate money 

town school committee may appropriate money 
appropriation expended by committee 
books and apparatus property of town 
public, 

establishment, 
appropriation to 
gifts to, 
directors, , 

election of 

women eligible to board, 
state grant to, . 
Library committee, Connecticut public, constitution of 

expenses of, 
duties, 

women eligible to, 
reports to, 
expenditure for free public libra 

ries, ... 
shall report to the governor, 
state treasurer shall pay bills of. 

Maintenance of public schools in consolidated towns, 
Majority required to elect district officers, . 
Manchester, ninth district, special act relating to schools, 
Manufactories, inspection of, by school officers. 
Meetings, district (see District Meetings). 

penalty for disturbing, . . . , 

Minors, not to loiter or play in billiard or pool rooms, 
Model primary schools, at normal schools, . 
Moderator, chosen in district meetings, 

powers of, ..... 

penalty for neglect to make return , 

Music, towns may direct school visitors or town school committee 

to employ teacher of, ... . 

salary of teachers, ..... 

towns shall pay salary, .... 

Narcotics, effects of, taught, .... 

examination in, . 
Naugatuck, special act relating to schools, . 
Neglected children (see Dependent Children). 
New Haven, special act relating to schools. 
New London, special act relating to schools. 
Normal School, annual appropriation, 

state board of education shall maintain, 
maintenance, .... 

training schools, condition concerning, . 
agreement to establish 
thorized. 



Section 

20I 
201 
20I 

107, 201 
240-253 
240 
241 
242 
243 
244 
248 
250 
245 
245 

246, 247 
248 
249 

251 

246 

252, 253 

185 

146 

p. 89 

28 

290 

294 

16 

143 
256 

91 



42 
42 
42 

194 
104 
p. 90 

p. 91 
p. 94 
12 
12 
12 
12 

12 



43 



120 



Normal School, number of pupils, rules concerning admission 
tuition gratuitous, .... 
persons admitted must declare intention to teach 

in state, ..... 
town school officers send names of suitable can 

didates, ..... 
funds expended by state board of education, 
appointment of teachers, . 
account filed semiannually with comptroller, 
report to the governor annually, . ' . 
model schools established by state board of edu 

cation, ..... 
must teach hygiene, 
Norwalk, special act relating to schools, 
Norwich, Falls district, special act relating to schools, 

Greeneville district, special act relating to schools. 
Notice, of district meeting, ..... 

proposition to form, alter, or unite school districts, 
abolition of district, .... 

Oath, of clerk, ...... 

person enumerating children, 
school visitors to returns, .... 
may be administered by school visitors, all three, . 
Offenses, against public property, .... 
policy, .... 

peace and safety, . 
the person, .... 

health and safety, 
Orange, Union School District of, special act relating to schools 

Parents, must cause children to attend, .... 

must cause children to be instructed in certain subjects, 
must cause children over fourteen to attend when 

notified by town school officers, 
must pay fee for recording age of child, 
shall make oath to age of child, . 
shall supply evidence of age, 
penalties for failure to instruct children, 

false statement concerning age of child, . 
to be notified of hearing in truancy cases, 
Paupers, what may vote in district meeting. 
Penalties, for not instructing children under one's care, . 

employment of children under fourteen during school 
hours, ....... 

employment of children under fourteen in factories 
and stores, ...... 

failure to have age certificates of children under i6, 
illegal employment of children, . . . . 

false statement as to age of children by parents, 



Section 
13 
13 

13 

14 
15 
15 
15 

15 

16 

43 

P- 95 

P- 95 

P- 97 

136 

126 

186 

144 
203 
204 
114 
287, 288 

291-295 

289, 290 

286 

263-271 

p. 99 

17 
17 

19 
24 
24 
24 
18 
22 

34 

138 

18 



23 
24 
26 
22 



21 



Penalties, refusal to give name and age of child, . 

delay in making returns, ..... 

illegal voting at district meetings, 
refusing to accept school office or perform its duties, 
failure to report names of district committees to 
school visitors, ..... 

refusing access to school records, 
failure to call district meeting, . 
failure to support schools, 
fraudulent certificate by a school visitor or town school 
committee, ..... 

for selectmen's neglecting to provide flag, 
for false testimony by women as to qualifications for 
voting, ...... 

injuries to schoolhouse, .... 

employing children in exhibitions, etc., 

permitting minors in pool room , 

interrupting schools, .... 

Physiology and Hygiene, text-books, 

instruction in, . 

teachers must pass exa:nination in, 
penalty if not taught, 
Plurality elects town officers, .... 

Police, may arrest truants, . . . . . 

Police Court, prosecution of truants before. 
Pool-rooms, minors not permitted in, 
Private schools, attendance at, . 

must keep registers, 

prescribed by state board of educa 
tion, .... 

subject to inspection by agent of 
state board of education, . 
must make reports and returns, . 
no financial report. 
Probate Courts, may commit girls to Connecticut industrial 
school, ..... 

Property, how divided, in case of joint districts, . 
Public money, how drawn, ..... 

annual appropriation and distribution, 
how paid when districts lie in several towns, 
withheld if district has no schoolhouse, 

district committee fail to re 
port to school visitors, 
misapplication of, penalty for. 
Pupils, how admitted to Normal schools, . 

disobedient may be suspended or expelled, 

poor may have books provided, 

non-resident, may be admitted to school when, 



Section 

206 

99 

U3 

144 

147 

151 

170 

222, 225 

229 

53 

260 

287 

286 

294 

289 

43 

43 

104, 194 

44 

88 

31 
30 
294 
20 
20 

20 

20 
20 
20 

281 
rS2 
108 
207 
226 
153 

225 
212 

13. 14 
170 
170 
156 



Records, of districts to be opened to inspection, 



151 



122 



Records, pertaining to schools, to be preserved and trans 
mitted, .... 
of town, to contain district bounds, 

district bounds, . 
town school committee, 
board of school visitors, 
Reform School, who may be sent to, . . . 274 

what authority may commit, 
Reformation, of children, 
Registers, for schools, form of, prescribed by state board of 
education, 
kept by teachers, 
returned by teachers, 
supplied to private schools, 
Registrars of births, may issue certificate of age, 
compensation, 
of voters — duties of. 
Registry lists, how prepared, 

compensation for preparing. 
Report, to Governor by state board of education. 

Secretary of state board of education, by agent 

school visitors, 

by town school committee, 

board of education, 

school visitors, by acting visitors, 

district committees, 
towns, by secretary of board of visitors or town school 

committee, ..... 

towns, by school committees, ... 

school visitors and selectmen, 
districts by board of education, . . . 

libraries, to Connecticut Public Library Committee, 
normal school to Governor, ... 
on oath before school officers. 
Returns (see Blanks). 

to Comptroller by district boards of education, . 
school visitors, 
form of, 

to be lodged with town treas 
urers. 
Returns, school visitors by district committee, 

correction of, 
what included in 
public money withheld if returns not made, 
Revocation of teachers' certificates, 

Safety, public, ...... 

Salary of superintendent, ..... 

part to be paid by supervision district 
teachers, when to be paid, 



Section 

113 

49 

124 

99 
99 

275, 276 
274, 276 
272-285 

2 

199 

199 

20 

24 
142 

139 

139, 140 

142 

2 

6 

99 

99 

61 

lOI 

171 

99 
179 
217 

59 
249 

15 
114 

61 

77. 108 

204, 207 

204 
171, 202 
204 
108 
225 
104 

263-271 
117 
117 
219 



123 



Sanitation, ...... 

of schoolhouses, 
penalty if inadequate, . 
Scholars, admission of nonresident, 

indigent, may be furnished with books, 
returns of, between certain ages, 
suspension or expulsion of, 
Schools, branches taught in, 
must be maintained, 

how long annually, 
open to children over five, 

over four in certain cases, 
neglect of district to keep, 
union of small, .... 

penalty for disturbing, 

when discontinued, provision for the children, 

visitation of, 

by committee, 
kindergarten, .... 

evening, ..... 

for boys, truants may be committed to, . 
School books (see Text-Books). 
School committees, town, .... 

meetings of, how called, 

secretary, duties of, 

appoint acting visitor, 

examine teachers, 

cannot be employed as teacher, 

approve library books and apparatus 

make returns of persons over four and 

under sixteen, 
return to State Board of Education 
the names and addresses of teachers, 
hear parents when school accommoda- 
tions not furnished, . 
select books for libraries, 
make rules for management of books 
shall superintend high schools, 

evening schools, 
inspect factories, 
may consent to attendance in non-local 

high schools, . 
may consent to conveyance grant, 
may appoint superintendent, . 

may fix salary, . 
may organize supervision district, 
may admit to school children over 

four, . 

may purchase and loan text-books to 
pupils, 



Section 

263-271 

264 

265 

156 

46, 170 

108 

170 

38 

38 

38 

38 

38 

152, 222 

223 

289 

223 

lOI 

170 

39 

74. 78 

32 

179 
98 

99 

loi, 102 

104 

106 

107 

108 



47 
200 
200 

66 

75 
28 

67 

71 

115 

115 

116 



38 



45 



24 



School committees, town, may make regulations, 
may prescribe studies, 
must choose officers, 
must prescribe rules, . 
must prescribe text-books, 
must superintend school libraries, 
must approve plans for schoolhouses, 
must superintend high and graded 
schools, . . . . 

must certify average number attend- 
ing evening schools to Comptroller, 
must certify to Comptroller that 
schools have been kept according 
to law, . . . , 

must report to State Board of Educa 

tion concerning evening schools, 
must report to town, . 
secretary shall certify salary of super 
intendent to State Board of Edu- 
cation, 
may petition for superintendent, 
may prescribe supplementary books, 
may require children to be vaccinated 
shall preserve books and documents 
may administer oath, . 
two-thirds vote of to change text-books, 
officers, . 
School fund, distribution of income of, 

to districts lying in two 

or more towns 

to towns forming single 

districts, 
to districts formed from 
societies, 
Schoolhouse, authority of districts as to, . 

is a public building, .... 
change of site of , 

fixing site for, .... 

must be kept to satisfaction of school visitors, 

penalty for injuring, .... 

entering, .... 

Schoolhouse, plans must be approved by school visitors, 

support withdrawn from districts having none, 

taking land for site, . . . .158 

land of ecclesiastical society not to be taken, 

use of, out of school hours decided by district, 

to be provided with safe exits, 

to be kept clean and wholesome, 

to be well ventilated , ... 



Section 
45 
38 
97 
97 
97 
97 
97 

97 

77 



77 
99 



117 
119 
III 
112 

113 
114 
III 

97 
207 

226 

169, 207 

62 
123 
265 
155 
155 
153 
287 
289 
154 
153 
159, 160 
161 

157 
268 
263 
263 



125 



Section 
School societies (see Societies, school). 
School visitors (see Visitors, school). 

School year, begins July 15, ends July 14, . . . 216 

length of term in weeks, .... 38 

Selectmen, duties and powers, ... 49 and note, p. 26 

to draw order on treasurer for payment of bills for 
text-books bought by acting visitor for indigent 
children, ..... 

hear appeal from town school officers, 
may require school officers to make legal arrange 
ments, ...... 

shall manage town property pertaining to schools, 
cause boundary lines of districts to be recorded 
call first meeting in new district, 
must approve commitment of truants, . 
may allow fees for arresting truants, . 
may appoint special constables to arrest truants, 
must leave warning of town meeting wnth town clerk 
determine number of town school committee, 
to furnish flag, ..... 

duties in connection with debts of district, 
joint board with school visitors. 
Sentence, suspension of, .... . 

Sheriffs, may arrest truants, ..... 

Site for schoolhouse, fixing, ..... 

' appeal to superior court, -159. 

taking land for, .... 158, 

land of ecclesiastical society not to be 
taken for, .... 



Small schools, discontinuance of. 

School money, misapplication of, 

Secretary of the board of visitors, 

state board of education 



how appointed, 
may remit forfeitures in certain cases, 
report to Comptroller list of delinquent towns, 
draw orders for library money, 
furnish blanks and registers to private schools, 
may inspect registers of private schools ^ 
may inspect certificates of age, 
may investigate age of children, , 
Societies, ecclesiastical, land of, may not be taken for site of 
schoolhouse, ..... 
school, transfer of property and obligations, 

records of, .... 

property of, 

debts and obligations, 

organized under the act of 1855, become school 

districts, .... 

choose board of education, 
duties and powers of districts so organized, 



46 
48 

48 
49 
49 
49 
32 
33 
37 
55 

176 
51 

188 

215 
18 

31 

155 
160 

193 



97, 99> 



58 



161 

223 

212 

103 

I 

10 

100 

200 

20 

20 

24 

25 

161 
56 
57 
60 
56 

59 
59 
59 



26 



Societies, school, apportionment of public money to, 

board of education of. 
Special acts relating to towns, Ansonia, . 

Bridgeport, 
Derby, 

Manchester, Ninth district, 
Naugatuck, 
New Haven, 
New London, 
Norwalk, . 
Norwich, Falls district, 

Greeneville district 
Orange, Union school district of 
Waterbury, . . p. 

Statistics, town school committee, . 
board of school visitors, . 
Studies, to be taught in public schools, 
Superintendent of schools, . 

how appointed, . 
duties, . 

compensation, fixed by the town, 
salary of, 
duties of, 

majority vote to elect, . 
Superintendent, employed by supervision committee 
salary, 
eligibility, . 
Supervision district, how organized. 
Supervision of schools, 
Supplies, free, 

Superior Court, appeal to, from proceedings relating to forma 

tion, etc., of school districts, 

proceedings to take land for sites of school 

houses, . 

proceedings in case of consolidation of joint 
districts, .... 
Support of schools, ..... 
high schools, . 
evening schools, 
' four-mill tax, . 
Support of schools, forfeiture for neglect by town. 
Suspension from school, .... 



Taxes, collectors of, . 

districts may levy, .... 
by city districts, .... 
assessors, . . . . 

school districts, .... 

on what assessment list laid. 



Section 
62 



61 

85 
86 

87 
89 
90 
91 
94 
95 
95 
97 



P- 

P- 

P- 

P- 

P- 

P- 

P- 

P- 

P- 

P- 

p. 99 

100-103 

99 

99 

38 

115 

102 

102 

103 

115 

115 

115 

116 

117 

118 

116 

■119 

45 



102, 



115- 



125 
159 

182 

202-209 

64 

77 
209 
222 
170 



144, 149, 150 

123 

221 

. 164, 168 

123 

168, note I 



127 



Taxes, school district, mode of assessment, 

of real estate lying 
partly in and part- 
ly out of a district 
omission from town list, . 
clerical omissions corrected, 
owned b}^ town, 
board of relief, 
deductions for indebtedness, 
change of title after completion of grand 
list, 
abolished districts, .... 
selectmen shall collect, 
town for high schools, 

equaHzation in consolidated districts, 
four mills for support of schools, . 
Teachers, certificates of, . 

necessary to employment, 
revocation, 
duty to keep registers, 

if not kept, cannot receive 
wages, . 
duty to obtain certificates, 
emploj'^ment of by school visitors, 

district committees, . 
districts, 

board of education, . 
- town committee, 

high school committee, 
dismissal of, by town committee, 
wages of, how paid, 

when to be paid, 
examination of, . . . . . 59, 104, 

State Board of Education, 
school visitors, . 
boards of education, 
town committee, 
high schools, examination of, 
certificates of, 
Term of office, of district committees, 

in larger districts. 
Term of office, town committees, . 

members of State Board of Education, 
school visitors. 
Term of school, children must attend during, 
Text-books, free, ..... 

State Board of Education may direct what shall be 

used in State, 
change of, . 



Section 
162, 168 



164 
166 
167 
163 
165 
165 



167 





189 




64 




180 




209 




104 




196 




104 




199 




199 




196 


40, 


105 




197 




123 


59. 


197 


179, 


197 


65, 


197 




179 




219 


219, 


220 


179, 


194 


4. 


195 




194 




61 




179 




66 




66 




144 




145 




177 

T 




95 




17 




45 




2 


2, 


III 



128 



Text-books, on physiology and hygiene, . 

towns may purchase for free distribution, . 
committee must supply indigent scholars, . 
supplementary reading may be prescribed, . 
purchased by the town, 
to be furnished to indigent children by acting 
visitor, ..... 

Tie in election of school visitors, .... 

Tobacco, sale of to mJnors, ..... 

use by minors, ..... 

Town clerk, to certify election of school visitors to Secretary of 
State, ...... 

Teachers may issue certificate of age, 

cannot be school visitor or member of town school 
committee, ..... 

of music, ...... 

in County Homes, how examined and appointed, 
Teachers' meetings, ...... 

Temporary homes, schools in, 

county commissioners may establish, 

employ and pay 
teachers, 
expense of paid by county, 
children, how enumerated, 
• schools open as in districts, 

employment and payment of teachers, 
books and apparatus, . 
examination of teachers, 
certificates for teachers, 
acting visitor, .... 

apportionment of expense between town and 

county in certain cases, 
expense when town maintains school, 
Towns, must furnish school accommodations, 

by transportation or otherwise, 
procedure when town refuses or neglects 
hearing by school visitors, . 
appeal, .... 

consolidation of districts of, ... 

districts lying in different, jurisdiction over, 
expenses of, 
Towns may abolish school districts, 

vote how taken, 
direct that teachers may be employed by school 
visitors, ..... 

direct that teachers of music be employed by school 

visitors or town school committee, . 
establish high schools, 

and choose committee therefor, 
establish evening schools, 



Section 

43 

45 

170 

III 

III 

4b 

96 

292 

293 



24 

106, 198 
42 
84 



83 

84 
80, 81 
82 
83 
34 
84 
84 
84 
84 

85 
86 
47 
47 
47 
47 
48 

173 
133 
226 

173 

174 

40 

42 
64 
65 

74. 78 



129 



Towns may form, alter, unite, and dissolve school districts, 
make regulations concerning truants, 
appoint truant officers, 
take land for school purposes, 
elect treasurer of permanent school funds, . 
must maintain schools 36 weeks, 

unless average attendance be 
eight or less 
pay expenses of district schools, 

exception if city in 

town limits, 

pay high school tuition fee, when, 

be reimbursed by State in part for high school 

tuition fee, 
pay transportation in certain cases, 
may receive high school conveyance grant 
establish kindergarten, . 
vote free text-books. 
Town clerk may issue certificate of age, . 
Town school officers: 

eligibility, sex no disqualification for school 

office, 
vacancies, how filled 

selectmen may fill vacancies in 
certain cases 
elected by ballot, 
when appointed, 
number of, 
change of number of 
plurality shall elect ex^ 

provided, 
return of election, 
official term, 
penalty for refusing to accept or perform 
duties, 
Training department of normal schools, 
Transportation of children, . 

high school, paid by town 
Treasurer, school district, election of, 
to give bonds, 
term of office, 
duties of, 

town school funds, 
town deposit fund. 
Truants, towns may make by-laws concerning, . 
impose penalties, 
may be arrested without warrant, 

committed to Connecticut School for Boys, 
prosecution of , . 

fees for arresting, ..... 
9 



cept when otherwise 



Section 
121 
29 
30 
193 
54 
38 

38 
38, 219 

221 

67 

68 
71 

72 

39 
45 
24 



92 
93 

93 
87 
87 
87 
87 



89 
90 

91 
12 

47, 223 
71 
144 
150 
144 
149 

54 
87 
29 
29 
31 
32 
29-35 
33 



I30 



Truants may be arrested by special constables 
warning and hearing, 
judgment may be suspended, 
parent or guardian to be notified, 
Truant officers, .... 

town and city officers may appoint under by-law 
must present written statement of arrest, 
Tuition at Normal School gratuitous, 

fees, high school, ..... 

to meet extra expenses of high or graded schools 

Union districts, under act of 1841, . 

of small districts, .... 
scholars to be provided for, 

Vacancies, in State Board of Education, . 
district committees, 
boards of school visitors, 
in town school committee, 
Vaccination of school children, 

may be paid for by the town in some cases 
Vagrant girls, ..... 

arrest of, .... 
Vagrants, regulations and by-laws concerning, . 
Ventilation of schoolhouse, .... 
Visitors, school, officers, .... 
compensation, 

classes, .... 
election, .... 
manner of election, 

election to be certified to Secretary of State 
number, 

meetings, how called, 
organization, 
secretary, duties of, 
duty to give certificate to Comptroller that 
schools have been kept according to 
law, . . . . . 

certify to Comptroller concerning even- 
ing schools, .... 
give certificate to selectmen that schools 

have been kept according to law, 
report names of teachers and district 
committees to State Board of Edu- 
cation, . . . . . 
make estimate to towns of cost of 
schools, . . . . 
make complaint to board of health when 
sanitary condition of schoolhouse is 
unsatisfactory, .... 



Section 
37 
34 
35 
34 
30 
30 
33 
13 
67 
224 

132 
223 
223 

I 
148 

95 

179 

266 

112 

36 

36 

29 

263, 264 

97 
103 

95 
87 
96 
89 
95 
98 

97 
99 



207 

77 
109, 2'i9 

no 

215, 217 



264 



131 

Section 
Visitors, school, duty to regulate libraries, . . 97,200,201 

superintend high schools, . . .66, 97 

may appoint acting visitor not of their 

number, .... 102 
may give written consent to attendance 

in non-local high school, . . 67 

joint duties with selectmen, . 201, 215, 217, 226 

penalty for fraudulent certificate of, . . 229 

power to administer oath, . . . 114 

admit nonresident pupils, . . 156 

change sites of schoolhouses in certain 

cases, ..... 155 
open schools in districts neglecting to 

keep one, . . . . 152 

duty to require vaccination of children, . 112 

change text-books, . . . 11 1 

prescribe supplementary reading, . 11 1 

powers superseded in districts having board of 

education, ..... 61 
school committee to be board of visitors if union 

system is abandoned, .... 192 
duties and powers, . . -97, 104, 105 
to approve plans for schoolhouses, . 97 
examine teachers, . . . 104 
of high schools, . 66 
sign teachers' certificates, . . 194 
give certificates to teachers, . . 104 
of high schools, 66 
revoke teachers' certificates, . . 104 
of high schools, 66 
inspect factories, . . . 28 
employ teachers when authorized, 40, 105, 197 
of music, . . 42 
make arrangements for children to at- 
tend school when there is no school 
in their district, . . . 223 
to superintend evening schools, . 75 
report concerning, . . . 77 
approve of the union of small schools, . 223 
make returns of enumeration to Comp- 
troller, ..... 108 
report to town, .... 99 
purchase text-books for free distribu- 
tion if so directed, ... 45 
may admit to school children under five, 38 
appoint acting visitor (see Acting Visi- 
tors), ..... 101 
appoint superintendent, . . . 115 
may fix salary, . . . . 115 
organize supervision district, . . 116 



132 



Visitors, school, duty to consent to conveyance grant, . 
prescribe studies, 

hear parents when school accommoda- 
tions not furnished, 
report to State Board of Education con- 
cerning evening schools, 
examine teachers, 
cannot be employed as teachers, 
approve library books and apparatus, . 
secretary shall certify salary of superin- 
tendent to State Board of Education, 
superintend high and graded schools, 
prescribe rules, 
prescribe text-books, 
petition for superintendent, 
approve books and apparatus, . 
appoint high school committee, 
preserve books and documents, 
nominate special constables to arrest 

truants, 
select books for libraries, 
make rules for management of books 
secretary of, duties in relation to state 

grant, . 
vacancies, how filled. 
Visitation of schools, 

schoolhouse to be visited, 
register to be inspected, 
library examined, 
studies investigated, 
by district committee, 
Voters, legal, in district meetings, . 
list of, how made out, 

Wages of teachers, paid by districts, 
when payable, . 
certificate necessary to. 
Warnings of town, city, borough, and other meetings, 
district meetings, how given, 

what to specify, 
Waterbury, special act relating to schools. 
Weeks of school, number of. 
Women, are eligible to certain olBfices, 
may vote for school officers, 
registration of , . 
separate voting lists, 
" women's ballots," 
names to be put on list " to be made,' 
to quaUfy in same manner as men, 
to have separate ballot-box, 



Section 
71 
38 

47 

77 

104 

106, 198 

107 

117 
97 
97 
97 

119 

107 
66 

113 

37 
200 
200 

210 
95 

lOI 
lOI 
lOI 
lOI 
lOI 

170 

137. 138 

139 

123 

219, 220 
196 

55 

136 

136 

100-103 

38 
248 

257, 259 
260 
258 
262 
258 

258, 260 
262 



133 

Section 
Women, penalty for false testimony, .... 260 

Wire, barbed, prohibited near schoolhouse, . . . 269 

Year, school, . . . . . . , . 216 

length of, ..... . 38 



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